Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
On Oct 4, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: > Not sure if I answered your question or not :) Yep, you did. I thought you were helping folks who were always sitting at a physical machine console. Disregard all after "Good afternoon"! GRIN... the comment didn't apply to remote

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-04 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Nathan Duehr wrote: >> Thanks, James, that did the trick. So now I have set up two desktops, >> one a vanilla xterm and the other specifically for this purpose, runs >> my script in a gnome-terminal and it appears to be working properly, >> no funky pop-ups or anyt

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-04 Thread Nathan Duehr
> Thanks, James, that did the trick. So now I have set up two desktops, > one a vanilla xterm and the other specifically for this purpose, runs > my script in a gnome-terminal and it appears to be working properly, > no funky pop-ups or anything. Thanks again for your help! Glad you got it working

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-04 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:54 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: >> >> If I just have "Exec=/usr/bin/xterm" in failsafe.desktop I can get the xterm >> to appear with just a normal prompt, with no automatic script execution. >> >> If I put "Exec=/usr/bin/xterm -e ssh guest@serve

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-04 Thread James Pearson
Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: > > If I just have "Exec=/usr/bin/xterm" in failsafe.desktop I can get the xterm > to appear with just a normal prompt, with no automatic script execution. > > If I put "Exec=/usr/bin/xterm -e ssh guest@server" it pops up a second > password entry but then kicks ou

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-03 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
- Original Message - From: "James Pearson" > fred smith wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:36:19PM -1000, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: >> >>>I have some clients that run centos6 and I need to have users be able to >>>access the "failsafe terminal" from the login screen. The old options

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-09-28 Thread James Pearson
fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:36:19PM -1000, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: > >>I have some clients that run centos6 and I need to have users be able to >>access the "failsafe terminal" from the login screen. The old options (from >>4/5) for choosing your session aren't present.

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-09-28 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:36:19PM -1000, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: > I have some clients that run centos6 and I need to have users be able to > access the "failsafe terminal" from the login screen. The old options (from > 4/5) for choosing your session aren't present. I've googled a bit on t

[CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-09-27 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
I have some clients that run centos6 and I need to have users be able to access the "failsafe terminal" from the login screen. The old options (from 4/5) for choosing your session aren't present. I've googled a bit on this but don't seem to be using a good search string as most of the hits have