From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 7 06:18:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24026 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 06:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24021 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 06:18:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cdsec.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) id PAA11934 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:26:13 +0200 (SAT) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 11931; Tue Jul 7 15:25:40 1998 From: Graham Wheeler Message-Id: <199807071323.PAA01453@cdsec.com> Subject: Deactivating the screen saver To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:23:38 +0200 (SAT) Cc: gram@gram.cdsec.com (Graham Wheeler) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25-h4.1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all I was wondering if there was a way to deactivate the console screen saver from within a program. By deactivate, I don't mean disable, but switch off until the idle period elapses, when it can kick in again. A crude approach may be to unload the module and then reload it, but perhaps there is a better way (other than adding a new ioctl/sysctl to the kernel). Any ideas, anyone? TIA Graham -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cdsec.com Citadel Data Security Phone: +27(21)23-6065/6/7 Internet/Intranet Network Specialists Mobile: +27(83)253-9864 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data Security Products WWW: http://www.cdsec.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message