From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 9 23: 5:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dslextreme.com (66-51-205-200.dslextreme.com [66.51.205.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42DDD37B405 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 23:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from reader.local.lan (adsl-66.51.210.228.dslextreme.com [66.51.210.228]) by mail.dslextreme.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4A683Ab004314 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 23:08:03 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4A65PL19522 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG.PROCMAIL; Thu, 9 May 2002 23:05:25 -0700 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.local.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4A65OF19505; Thu, 9 May 2002 23:05:24 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.local.lan: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lock the sceen in console mode References: <20020510021614.GA82993@moo.holy.cow> <1021006425.299.0.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: <1021006425.299.0.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "10 May 2002 00:53:45 -0400") Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 23:03:50 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i586-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 36 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 22:55, Harry Putnam wrote: >> parv writes: >> >> > in message , >> > wrote Harry Putnam thusly... >> >> >> >> what do I need to be able to lock the screen on my Toshiba running >> >> 4.3 (still). I only use it in console mode. >> > >> > see lock(1) manpage... your answer is there. >> >> Well, that was pretty painless... thanks. >> >> Who'd have thought to look there... hehe. > > I also have a port called gone (misc/gone). It offers some nice > features over lock(1). Read the description stuff on my old 4.3 ports tree (gone-1.3.1) Sounds good. But I guess no one has written a sort of daemon for this like the screensavers that lock up the terminal after some specified time. Lock and gone work the other way round. Unlocking or (logging out) after specified time. Both seem sort of backwards. At least for what I wanted it for. I wanted something that does this by itself after some stipulated period. I realize I could script either lock or gone to do that very thing. Just lazy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message