[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] [base-files] failsafe-mode: print short help on commandline

[Bastian Bittorf]

[base-files] failsafe-mode: print short help on commandline

Like mentioned in ticket https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/11911
this should make the IRC much quieter. Failsafe is somehow
special and even experienced users are helpless, because they
are not used to this seldom situation. Also: likely you have
no internet access in this mode, so you cannot use the wiki.

this supersedes the old patches:
http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/3337/
http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/3553/

Signed-off-by: Bastian Bittorf <bittorf at bluebottle.com>
---
 package/base-files/files/etc/banner.failsafe |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 package/base-files/files/etc/profile         |    1 +
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 package/base-files/files/etc/banner.failsafe

diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/banner.failsafe b/package/base-files/files/etc/banner.failsafe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..618a087
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/banner.failsafe
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+================= FAILSAFE MODE active ================
+special commands:
+* firstboot	     reset settings to factory defaults
+* mount_root	 mount root-partition with config files
+
+after mount_root:
+* passwd			 change root's password
+* /etc/config		    directory with config files
+
+restart system with:
+* reboot -f				 reboots router
+
+for more help see:
+http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/generic.failsafe
+=======================================================
+
diff --git a/package/base-files/files/etc/profile b/package/base-files/files/etc/profile
index e9a7119..e72c377 100644
--- a/package/base-files/files/etc/profile
+++ b/package/base-files/files/etc/profile
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+[ -e /tmp/.failsafe ] && cat /etc/banner.failsafe
 [ -f /etc/banner ] && cat /etc/banner
 
 export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin
-- 
1.7.10.4
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