[rhelv6-list] Manual bootstrap steps at first boot

[Darren Patterson]

On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Michael Coffman wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Darren Patterson <darren.patterson at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Years ago it was possible to create an interactive init script that prompted on startup.  This isn't the case anymore, unlike on Debian and Ubuntu.
> 
> There are two bootstrap steps that I need to need to prompt for at first boot as root.  Since I can't do that at boot, anyone want to offer some recommendations?
> 
> I was considering just having root's shell skel files launch the script (then remove itself on success).  Is there a better way?
> 
> 
> Would it be over kill to make use of firstboot?   It looks like you could modify /etc/init.d/firstboot to point to your own set of python scripts to do 
> custom config via 
> 
> firstboot -m
> 
> I have not tried this, but it seems like it would work as a way to force something the first time the system is booted.


firstboot requires X, which we don't install on our servers.   I am trying to match cli bootstrap functionality with Debian/Ubuntu.

Thanks,

-darren

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