Re: [gentoo-releng] Catalyst Woes

[derek tracy <tracyde@gmail.com>]

My question still remains how would I go about having root
automatically logged in as it was before?

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:01:02 -0400, derek tracy <tracyde@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The xinitrc can be setup by using the livecd/xinitrc option in
> > livecd-stage2 in catalyst 1.0.9 (or better, when it comes).
> 
> I do use the livecd/xinitrc to setup the xinitrc file and I love this option.
> 
> > > programs wrote a bash script to "inject" the configuration files that
> > > I created for openbox, torsmo, pypanel, and the xinitrc.  (menu.xml,
> > > rc.xml, pypanelrc).  Created the cd and now when I boot I can't do
> >
> > Personally, I just create the files during the fsscript.sh stage of my
> > livecd-stage2.
> 
> I thought about doing this but my bash scripting skills are something
> to be desired and echoing everything to a file just didn't sound like
> an apealing solution.
> 
> > > anything because it does not automatically log root in.  So I just sit
> > > there at the log on prompt because it also auto-scrambles the root
> > > passwd.
> >
> > Well, you can edit the /usr/lib/catalyst/livecd/files/livecd-local.start
> > file if you wish before building your CD.  In the future, I think I'm
> > going to write up a patch to catalyst so that you can specify the
> > local.start in the livecd-stage2 spec file, similar to the xinitrc.
> 
> That would be great, anything that allows more configurability out of
> the box is awesome.
> 
> > > My question is this are there any packages that you have found not to
> > > work with catalyst live-cd's because they change certain configuration
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > >And are there any files that I could edit to make root
> > > automatically log in?
> >
> > Do you have livecd in your USE in livecd-stage1?
> 
> Yes, livecd is in my USE flags in livecd-stage1
>

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