Re: [SLUG] Todays puzzle

From: Kwan Lowe (kwan@digitalhermit.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 11:21:08 EST


> My problem is with the mepis system because someone will shut the system down even
> though I have taken all the Icons off the desktop except firefox so whoever does it
> has to make an effort and it isn't just a mistake. What I would like is the system
> to boot up into firefox and if they exit firefox it would start up again in 10
> seconds. I don't even know if this is doable. Any ideas? TIA Maury

A couple possibilities:

0) Don't even load a window manager. There's a linux-kiosk project that has hacked
twm to load instead of the wm. Kill firefox and the X-server exits and respawns via
inittab.

1) Remove execute permissions for /sbin/shutdown for group and other.

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