Re: [Halevt-dev] Using halevt to mount luksformatted cryptsetup disks

[Sascha Wüstemann]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:33:33AM +0200, Sascha Wüstemann wrote:
>> Hi Developers,
>>
>> pmount /dev/sdd1 from an xterm
>>
>> - pop up an X window e. g. an xterm with the interactive pmount command
>> at my running X session like gnome does at my debian system.
> 
> I'd setup halevt to launch the pmount through xterm as you say,
> something along
> 
> exec="xterm -e 'pmount $hal.block.device$'"
> 
> Not to be taken literally, but to be adapted to your precise use case.
> 
> In any case, I didn't really get what is your issue.  Did you tried
> something that didn't work, or didn't you have any clue on what to do 
> to begin with?  If it is the first thing, please tell more.  If it is 
> the second, my advice would be that you read a bit of documentation
> first, like the halevt manual, maybe some things on xml, and also,
> if you have trouble with that, maybe on shell quoting.
> 

I have already tried that but there is no xterm popping up. I think it
is because it has no X environment variable and I have no clue how to
_not_ hardcode that.