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Originally Posted by arivero
It is valuable advise. Some other people can be tempted about startup scripts now, and it is not wise to let them to hang when you can not reflash yourself 
Other trick I can think is to get the executable of rxvt, hoping it still works, and do a small shell script waiting some minutes (to let the user get off from the testing network dialog), then switching on the network, then running rxvt against a external xdisplay. Your method, netcat based, had the adventages of being permanent and of not needing a Unix/Xwindows counterpart. |
how about moving /usr/bin/downloadMgr out of the way and replacing it with a short script that starts the network and runs dropbear? That way, when you press the IDS button it starts your shell. No worries about bricking it on startup either. You can always move downloadMgr back into place when you want to do a real update...