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<TITLE>Kiosk HOWTO : Initializing the Kiosk</TITLE>
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<H2><A NAME="s4">4. Initializing the Kiosk</A></H2>
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<P>Under normal (i.e. kiosk) conditions, Linux should boot straight into
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Kiosk mode. In the event of a power failure, accidental reboot, or
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scheduled reboot, you need to configure the system to do this.
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<P>For our kiosk we elected to use init level 4, which is normally
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unused, for kiosk mode. We made the following adjustment to
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/etc/inittab:
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.1">4.1 /etc/inittab modifications</A>
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# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
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# 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
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# 1 - Single user mode
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# 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
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# 3 - Full multiuser mode
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# 4 - Kiosk mode
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# 5 - X11
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# 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
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#
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id:4:initdefault:
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.2">4.2 /etc/rc.d/rc.4/S99xkiosk runlevel script</A>
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</H2>
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<P>To initialize the kiosk after everything else has been initialized,
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including, in our case, Apache and MySQL, create the file
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/etc/rc.d/rc.4/S99xkiosk:
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#!/bin/bash
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#
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# S99xkiosk Initialization of kiosk for runlevel 4
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#
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# Author: Gene Wilburn <genew@rom.on.ca>
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#
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# Display message on console
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echo "Starting up the X Window Kiosk ... "
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if [ -f /.netscape/lock] ; then
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rm /.netscape/lock
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fi
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# Logging of X activity
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echo %%%%%%%%%%%%%Reboot%%%%%%%%%% >> /var/log/xlog
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/root/xkiosk
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# This point should only be reached by pressing Ctrl-Backspace
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/sbin/shutdown -r now
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# All done.
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</PRE>
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<HR>
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<P>Once this file has been created and inittab has been adjusted to boot
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into init level 4, Linux will boot directly into kiosk mode. On our
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kiosk we disable telnet and ftp and install ssh so we can maintain and
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administer the kiosk remotely across the network with ssh and scp.
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<P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss4.3">4.3 Booting normally from the console</A>
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</H2>
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<P>There are times, especially during testing, when you'd like to work
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from the console in a normal init level 3 mode. To do this, press
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<B>Ctrl-Backspace</B> to reboot the system. When LILO: appears type:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
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LILO: linux init 3
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</PRE>
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</CODE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P>and log in as usual.
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