That’s great – thanks for the howto. I’m wondering if the console could alternatively auto-refresh itself (ie. on a timer rather than a keypress)?
From: kohenk...@gmail.com [mailto:kohenk...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Moshe Katz Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 6:16 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] console menu closes when enter pressed I added the following two lines at line 83 of /etc/rc.initial "'") ;; Now, it should refresh if I press apostrophe, then <enter>. I chose that key because it is next to the enter key so I can press them both at once. I also changed ${opmode} on line 82 to have quotes around it (although I don't know if this is required to make it work or not). What I don't like about the 15 option is that it displays the banner twice in a row and to me it just looks messy. Moshe ------------------------------ Moshe Katz -- mo...@ymkatz.net<mailto:mo...@ymkatz.net> -- +1(301)867-3732 On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Steven Sherwood <stev...@coc.ca<mailto:stev...@coc.ca>> wrote: I noticed this recently too, and I could have sworn that hitting enter used to make a screen refresh, but I when I log back into a couple of different 1.2 and 1.2.3 boxes which are still in operation, I see the same result. In other words, this isn't a new 2.0 behavior unless something changed with my SSH client of choice, Putty. I would like to see a screen refresh for hitting enter as well. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Pingle [mailto:li...@pingle.org<mailto:li...@pingle.org>] Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:08 PM To: support@pfsense.com<mailto:support@pfsense.com> Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] console menu closes when enter pressed On 12/15/2010 12:27 PM, Moshe Katz wrote: > I noticed that if I just hit enter on the pfSense console without typing > an option first, it exits the console. If I am on ssh, it closes the > connection and if I am on the local terminal, where I have it set to > prompt for a password, it asks the password again. > > Since option 0 can be used to do the same thing and there are times that > I would like to refresh the console (to re-display the connection status > at the top), I am wondering why it is set up to exit if no input is given? > One of my development boxes gets a new IP address regularly and I like > to refresh the console to see when the address has been successfully > acquired. The way it is now, I have to log in again and again or go > into another option, such as the shell, and then out of it again. > > I know where to modify this myself in /etc/rc.initial but before I do > so, I am curious as to the reason it works this way. I don't recall the specifics on why it was done that way, but you could use hidden menu option 15 to redisplay the banner section of the console menu. (Not sure why that's hidden, except perhaps to save space on the menu.) That, or hit 8 to drop to a shell and then exit (or ctrl-d) to go back to the menu. Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com<mailto:support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com> For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com<mailto:support-h...@pfsense.com> Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
