You could set up a cron job to check for the existance of the firefox process
and start it if it's not found. I don't know about checking every 10 seconds
since that might use a lot of CPU resources... maybe every minute at the most.
Do you have any other services running on the Mepis box? Someone might be
logging into Telnet or SSH via your wireless connection and shutting down the
box that way. It would be easy to sniff your passwords over the wireless
network if you're using Telnet (since telnet doesn't encrypt network traffic).
Change your user and root passwords ASAP and turn off services that you don't
need. Also, check for rootkits. You might have been pwned in the process.
Sincerely,
Richard Morgan
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Quoting Maurice Wilson <maury0324@comcast.net>:
> Hi Everyone. I seldom post but do learn from being on the list. I
> have been using linux for 3 1/2 years and mostly simply mepis for the
> last two. I'm an old guy and live in a retirement community and
> recently set up a five station system (I did the work). Four of the
> stations use winxp and are locked up except when we are having
> classes (our computer club). The other station is running simply
> mepis with firefox and the public only has access to the keyboard and
> mouse and is supposed to be used by residents to surf or get web
> based email. We also have a wireless setup inside a steel box so the
> range only covers our clubhouse and it gets a lot of use by our
> winter residents who have laptops.
> 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
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