From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 8 21:54:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AD3F16AAF6 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:54:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from drone3.qsi.net.nz (drone3-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F6744D35 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:46:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: (qmail 13723 invoked by uid 0); 8 Jun 2006 19:46:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chen.org.nz) ([202.89.146.5]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Jun 2006 19:46:28 -0000 Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 78B415642F; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:46:27 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:46:27 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org Message-ID: <20060608194627.GA2503@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD for use as an interactive kiosk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:54:10 -0000 On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:16:15AM +0000, drseuk@droog.sdf-eu.org wrote: [...] > I'd welcome any advice and suggestions about how to do this. Currently the > information on the system is updated in situ so the file systems can't > be made read only (any ideas on how we could split the updating from the > deployment welcome). There are a couple of solutions involving NFS that could be used, if you've got the bandwidth. eg: You could make all the base file-systems read-only, and mount the run-file-system over NFS; or you could make the kiosks mount everything except the root-file-system over NFS. If I recall correctly, there are examples available in the Handbook. >We also need to find a way of turning firefox into a > kiosk browser. Put a script in /etc/ttys that starts up X and runs firefox; maybe `startx && firefox'? Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" - Edmond Blackadder III