On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:14:11 GMT, Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy> wrote:
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> On 26 Aug 2004 08:20:51 -0700, L. Mark Bruffey <mbruffey@centralseminary.edu> wrote:
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>> Bit Twister <BitTwister@localhost.localdomain> wrote in message news:<slrnciqo5e.67a.BitTwister@wb.home.invalid>.. .
>>> On 25 Aug 2004 18:09:39 -0700, L. Mark Bruffey wrote:
>>> > I want to boot Linux directly to an HTML menu that I have prepared for
>>> > the users of the machine. Is this possible?
>>>
>>> Then put
>>> mozilla file:///your/dir/torun/index.html
>>> exit
>>> in each users .bash_profile
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>> This option is probably what I will have to resort to, because I am
>> not at all a programmer. I'll probably use firefox if I can figure out
>> how to lock it down sufficiently.
>>
>> Thanks sincerely for all help.
>>
>> mark
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> All you want to do is display an HTML menu that doesn't *do* anything?
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> Whatever for?
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> That isn't even a menu, it's a *list*.
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> AC
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I just thought of a way that you could make that a real menu.

Let's say that you had a link on your menu.html that read "Connect to
Internet"

When your user clicked on that link they would get a new web page
that would say "Now Connecting to the Internet"

In the background you have a bash script looping over the output
of ps and when it spotted "mozilla file:///your/dir/torun/connect.html"
it would run your connect script and have mozilla re-display the menu.

Hey! It would be simple enough to write and would *work*.

:-)

AC