On 2/11/2010 9:56 AM, Georghy wrote:
> Les Mikesell a écrit :
>> Georghy wrote:
>>
>>>> Do these need to run as root? And do they really need to wait for a user to log
>>>> in or can they write their output to a file to be viewed later? You can put a
>>>> line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to run your script which you can change each time as
>>>> you want. And you can add>>/path/to/logfile on the command if you want it to
>>>> be saved. If you want something to run as the user at login, it can go in
>>>> .profile or .bash_profile in the user's home directory.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I use .bash_profile and it works great
>>>
>>> for now i want to display the computer IP adress just before the user login
>>>
>>> my command is :
>>> ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | sed s/addr:// | head -n 1
>>> and it works after logon
>>> but I want to display it before the user logon
>>> do you know how to do this ?
>>>
>>
>> The same commands work but the hard part is knowing where to display before
>> someone logs in. Is this a text console or do you have a graphic login box showing?
>>
>> And by the way, you don't need a pipeline of 4 commands to grab a bit of text.
>> Sed can do everything that grep does and more, awk can do anything sed can do.
>> If you use one of the more powerful commands you might as well let it do all the
>> work instead of building a pipeline.
>>
>>
> I want to display the IP adress of the computer for the user
> then he knows what IP use in order to launch a ssh connection
> In addition, we want to display it after a kickstart installation
> so I want to put this command in the kickstart
> then after the installation reboot it can display the IP adress of the
> computer
You didn't answer the question. _Where_ do you want to display this IP
address? Before login there is no output stream or location associated
with a user - or really even for the machine, although there is some
concept of a console where output lands during bootup for most machines.
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