From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 24 13:47:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E1215112 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:47:33 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB44011059E5@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'Lowell Gilbert' Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: Cycling bootup splash screens? (trivial) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:49:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was thinking the latter, of using a symlink to an image and just leaving /boot/loader.conf alone. Unfortunately, i'm not versed enough to get started on that script. I'll probably beat my head over it this weekend. :^) You wouldn't happen to have any ideas on how I would go about randomly selecting a file in a directory would you? -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Lowell Gilbert [SMTP:lowell@world.std.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 4:24 PM > To: Christopher Michaels > Subject: Re: Cycling bootup splash screens? (trivial) > > Christopher Michaels writes: > > > I have a trivial question. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on > how > > to cycle or randomly change the splash screen in FreeBSD-3.2. I know > that > > this would probably be with a shell script or something of the like. I > > genuinely just don't know where to begin. > > You can do it in a shell script, sure. Call the shell script from > rc.local, I guess. > > The script can work in one of two ways: either twiddle loader.rc, or > copy a new file into the file that loader.rc loads for a splash image > (modifying a symbolic link would be one way to do the latter). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message