Date: 08 Dec 97 11:17:49 +0100 From: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Console Login Message-ID: <6e1_9712081629@swimsuit.roskildebc.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971207232645.1045A-100000@freight.msn.bc.ca>
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At 08 Dec 97 08:33:16 bpepa@freight.msn.bc.ca wrote regarding Console Login b> This may sound goofy, but I've been leaving my terminal on all b> night (logged in as myself) and have a script that will write a b> message to myself (write bpepa d1 < wakeup) executed by cron in b> the morning, that makes my terminal beep (loudly) as an alarm b> clock 'till I kill the script. It would be more energy efficent b> if I put my terminal on a timer to turn on in the morning, but it b> doesn't work unless I'm logged in. Why not just send bell-characters to the terminal-device in the cronjob? No need to be logged in. Leif Neland leifn@image.dk --- |Fidonet: Leif Neland 2:234/49 |Internet: leifn@image.dk
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