Looking for help setting up a kiosk

[rafan]

Hi everyone,

Been banging my head against a wall trying to set up a kiosk based on RHL 6.2, following the kiosk-HOWTO.

Everything works great for me, except when I actually try to start up the machine in runlevel 4 (per the howto).

What happens is X starts and I'm immediately greeted with the Netscape license agreement!

Now, if I fire up the kiosk after logging in as root(in runlevel 3), it works great, and reads the preferences that I set.


What I need to have happen is that the kiosk gets started and brings up X with all the settings that I made.


Has anyone run into this problem before? X and NS are apparently running as root, (according to ps aux) but NS _definately_ isn't reading root's preferences.

Thanks for your help.

[pbharris]

the only thing which has happend to me like this, well exactly like this, i.e. netscape completely ignoring .netscape directory. soultion was to change permisions on the .netscape directory. this did not solve all my problems, but most of them.

[rafan]

Which .netscape dir?

The one off of / or /root ?

Currently, both directories are chmod'ed to drwxr-xr-x... what should they be? 777?

Thanks for the reply!

[rafan]

I did chmod both .netscape directories to 777 and still have the same problem...

NS & X starting from runlevel 4, assumably as root, but not reading root's NS prefs....

Anyone else have an idea?

[This message has been edited by rafan (edited 16 October 2000).]

[Shad]

Did you accept the license agreement? When netscape is started for the first time for whatever user it wants you to accept the license agreement.

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[rafan]

I do that every time, and every time it's the same... http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

It's like NS just doesn't want to read the preferences that have been set up already.

I also have it set to start with the -no-about-splash switch to bypass the opening NS screen, but it ignores that as well.



[This message has been edited by rafan (edited 17 October 2000).]

[rafan]

Interestingly enough, I set up a RH6.1 machine with X and tried setting it up per the HOWTO...

Guess what? It works!


Anyone have any ideas what in RH6.2 wouldn't play nice?