[PLUG] boot shell question.

[Steve Butts]

On 16-Nov-98 Greg Fox wrote:
> 
> I have a simple(?) question:
> 
> Using Debian 2.0 how would I boot into a root shell, and 
> execute a program which requires user interaction? I have 
> tried adding my program into rc.boot, I have tried adding
> /bin/bash to /etc/inittab under a console, I have tried to
> figure out agetty so that it does not prompt for a username
> and inside yields a root bash, but all of no luck.

   For Redhat I know when you boot into single user mode it drops you straight
into a root shell.  Perhaps Debian does the same, just set the default runlevel
to be 1 or whatever it is for single user mode in /etc/inittab.  Then have a
.bash_profile that runs the mp3 program.  This way you do actually run
through the rc.d process.

... Steve Butts
... sbutts@purdue.edu
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