On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:21 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 22:00 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > > >>Mark Sargent wrote: > >> > > > > Have you tried that and made it work? 8-) > > > > This is what I see in rc.sysinit (which gives that message). > > ------------------------------------- > > if [ "$PROMPT" != "no" ]; then > > echo -en $"\t\tPress 'I' to enter interactive startup." > > echo > > fi > > ------------------------------------- > > > > I don't find anything in the script to ever even read the input, let > > alone assign the input to a variable or use it. > > > > If you can tell me where it is ever assigned/used in the script I would > > appreciate it. Maybe I can learn something about scripting. :-) > > The snippet above is what produces the prompt to press the "I" key. The > key isn't read until *much* later. Search for "getkey" in > /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. If the "I" key is detected as having been pressed > at the appropriate time, the file /var/run/confirm is created, and the > presence or absence of this file is used by /etc/rc.d/rc to determine > whether or not it should prompt for whether each individual initscript > should be run. > > Paul. > Thank you Paul. I had totally missed that, and should not have. Guess I need to read a lot closer at times.
