On 02/04/2014 04:33 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
I want to boot into single user mode and run a script automatically.
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How often - every time, or just once? If every time, create a script and put it in /etc/init.d/, with a link to /etc/rc1.d, or use whatever it is in systemd's analog.
markEverytime. We have a USB key that has a tarfile of CentOS and our software on it The script partitions the hard drive and untars the tarfile - this takes about 2 minutes vs using a custom kickstart file which takes 20 to 30 minutes.
So we build a CentOS respin iso image along with our software - install it into a virtual machine and at the end of the install the ks file creates a tarfile from the new image. We then move this image to the USB key.
In CentOS 5.x all I had to do was create a .profile file in / and it would get ran. CentOS 6.x doesn't run the .profile -
If what you are really doing is the equivalent of cloning images, you might look at clonezilla, or the backup/restore package called rear (in EPEL). But for a quick brute-force change, you could probably edit /etc/init/rcS-sulogin.conf and add the script you want to replace /sbin/sushell.
Hi Les,
Yes I found that file - Thanks.