[NTLUG:Discuss] ubuntu 6.10 start up question

[Robert Citek]

Robert Citek wrote:
> Here's a script
> that summarizes how I found the cheatcode:
> 
> ( tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
>   cd $tmpdir
>   zcat /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-386 |
>    cpio -i
>   grep -R cmdline .
>   rm -rf $tmpdir
> )
> 
> As you can see, from the output, /init is not the only script that
> parses /proc/cmdline.

Woops.  Forgot to paste the output:

31417 blocks
Binary file ./bin/kinit matches
Binary file ./bin/sh matches
Binary file ./bin/busybox matches
Binary file ./lib/libselinux.so.1 matches
Binary file ./sbin/vgchange matches
./scripts/init-top/framebuffer:for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
./scripts/init-top/usplash:for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
./init:for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do

BTW, the above was run on Ubuntu 6.06 with the 2.6.15-27-386 kernel.
I'm assuming if you adjust the code you can find similar results for
Ubuntu 6.10.

Regards,
- Robert