On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:29 AM, Michael Coffman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Darren Patterson > <[email protected]> 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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