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- From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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- Subject: Re: Sun Screen Savers
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 11:54:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.160518.20921@eng.ufl.edu> dlopata@shark.stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata) writes:
- > We recently got in a shipment of 36 sun workstations, and I'm trying
- >to track down a suitable screen blanking utility for them (ELCs and IPXes). It
- >has to be something that can run in rc.local, so it will blank regardless of
- >whether or not someone is logged in.
- > The Sun folks have said screenblank should NOT be run in rc.local, and
- >should be killed when a person logs out, making it's installation a rather
- >pointless gesture at best.
-
- An entry such as:
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- console "/usr/local/etc/screensaver console" sun on
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- in /etc/ttytab, and a program (/usr/local/etc/screensaver) which calls up
- some pretty screensaver - we use crabs - which exits on a keypress,
- then calls getty.
-
- Nice and simple.
-
- Cheers,
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