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- Subject: Re: rc.local
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.103345.14405@urz.unibas.ch>
- From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:33:45 GMT
- Reply-To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch
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- References: <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Institut fuer Informatik
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- In article <1993Jan8.150428.29811@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> writes:
- > Subject:
- > Summary:
- > Expires:
- > Sender: rpajarol@iiic.ethz.ch
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- > Distribution: Distribution:
- > Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
- Zurich, CH
- > Keywords: nppower
- >
- >
- > Hi people,
- > since I have the new NextStep3.0, over all it's very good, I can't do
- > some things I did bevore.
- >
- > Especially things I want to do at boot-up time.
- >
- > In NS2.1 I had entries in the rc.local to play a sound and to power the
- > printer off. The entries looked something like this:
- >
- > sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/mysound.snd &
- >
- > ....
- >
- > nppower off
- >
- > ....
- >
- >
-
- I always had to put a sleep <some seconds> before the nppower off command in
- rc.local. On the 'old' station and 2.1, 3 seconds were fine, now I need 5
- seconds or the printer won't turn off.
-
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