simple pre script for user input

[tony.chamberlain at lemko.com]

How will you know it is tty3 though?
maybe  
   exec < $(tty) > $(tty) 2> /dev/$(tty)

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Brown [mailto:ebrown at lanl.gov]
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 04:09 PM
To: 'Discussion list about Kickstart'
Subject: Re: simple pre script for user input

Try adding this after 'chvt 3':

exec </dev/tty3 >/dev/tty3 2>/dev/tty3

-Ed

tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> I'm betting the RPM program does not have its stdin from your terminal,
> so it is waiting on the read for the IP, which, even though you enter
> something, does not get read since your tty is not its stdin.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Bailey [mailto:gbailey at terremark.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:12 PM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: simple pre script for user input
> 
> Playing around with a %pre script for user input, and while this works fine
> in a normal shell, after I enter an IP it just hangs there and I have to hit
> alt-f2 and kill the process before it moves forward .. Anyway ideas? Like I
> said this works fine in a normal shell:
> 
> %pre
> chvt 3

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