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Hi I'd like to know in which direction I should go for this. Background: We have a Raspberry PI terminal which connects via XTerm to a telnet session. Openbox is the window manager(default). We have stripped down most of the unwanted apps that come with Rasparian except for browser which we know will be used in future. Our pain at the moment is changing configuration values for different situations ie IP address, screen resolution, etc. Currently we use Xterm for native VT100 emulation and the ease at which the keyboard Function keys can be programmed using the .Xsession config file. We change configuration for each terminal manually. There is a possibility now that we will be rolling out a fair number of these terminals. Possible solution: Use a light webserver, create a form and have this form post the values put in to the various configuration files. This would involve, php, perl some shell scripting from my reading. Someone else has suggested busybox. I would like to know from the fundi's here what would be the most efficient way of doing this?

Probably some CGI-scripting should work for that: "behind" the form the user sends there is a script of some sort picking up the values and doing something with them (i.e. write a config file).

CGI is an API and you can use it from a wide range of programming languages. Many use perl for that, but you can also use any shell language and some others as well. That is more a matter of personal taste than one of technical requirements.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Thank you bakunin for the tip - I will research the CGI API.