[CentOS] startup config scripts for CentOS

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Wed Aug 8 00:09:02 UTC 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Rogelio Bastardo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 6:02 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] startup config scripts for CentOS
> 
> On CentOS-based VM appliance I'm building, I would like to 
> create a script that runs upon login that asks the user a 
> series of questions that does (among other things) ask them 
> to input their networking information (IP, mask, gate, DNS, etc). 
>  
> I'm hoping you guys might point me in the right direction. 
> Here are some of the specific things I'm looking to 
> accomplish with such a script.
>  
> (1) Where might I look to for creating these types of scripts 
> (e.g. I'm assuming Bash is the way to go here?)
> (2) Are there any templates out there that I might use as a 
> starting place?
> (3) Once I write something, where/how do I call it in /etc/rc.d/
> (4) And once it starts, what is the best way to make sure 
> that it doesn't run again upon the second (and subsequent) reboots?
>  
> Ideally, someone could show me a model of something like this 
> that's already done, and I could just mod that.  Otherwise, 
> I'll grind through something manually, if I so have to....

Kinda like the 'firstboot' app that runs the first time the machine
is installed after the reboot and doesn't run again?

-Ross

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