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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Sun Screen Savers
- In-Reply-To: dlopata@shark.stat.ufl.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 16:05:18 GMT
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
- References: <1992Jul23.160518.20921@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:57:25 GMT
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- David> == David Lopata <dlopata@shark.stat.ufl.edu>
-
- David> [need a screenblanker] It has to be something that can run in
- David> rc.local, so it will blank regardless of whether or not someone
- David> is logged in.
-
- David> The Sun folks have said screenblank should NOT be run in
- David> rc.local, and should be killed when a person logs out, making
- David> it's installation a rather pointless gesture at best.
-
- If you're going to be using X and just X, set up xdm, and let the X
- screensaver take care of it.
-
- (We run screenblank on a couple of our machines from rc.local, never had
- any problems; we run xdm on one, and it's fine; the other two are admin
- workstations, so they get xlocked as necessary :)
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