From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 9 23:18:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18DF37B400 for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 23:18:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4A6IBmM050586; Fri, 10 May 2002 02:18:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Lock the sceen in console mode From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Harry Putnam Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20020510021614.GA82993@moo.holy.cow> <1021006425.299.0.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.4 Date: 10 May 2002 02:18:10 -0400 Message-Id: <1021011491.299.29.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 02:03, Harry Putnam wrote: > 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. You may want to have a look at idled (sysutils/idled). It could probably be made to do what you want in combination with lock or gone. I haven't used idled (and it may not work for you OOB), but it might make a good starting point on your quest. Joe > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message