Need Non-X screen saver for Solaris

2007-12-25 9:06:00

My original post:

>Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a screen saver similar to the one

>in SunOS 4.x that can be started up at boot time on our SPARC5s? They are

>running Solaris 2.4.

I didn't mention that I had already tried the one from SunOS and it didn't

work.

Well, almost everyone suggested I use the one provided with SunOS. So I tried

it again, and this time it worked. I don't know what I did wrong the first

time.

A number of the respondents indicated it was in the Solaris FAQ. My apologies

for not having checked it first. Thanks to Tim Evans and Fausto Almeida

(tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com and fausto@poirot2.gia.ist.utl.pt) for sending

me a copy of the FAQ.

This is how I implemented it:

I put a copy of the SunOS screenblank in our /net/bin directory, then created

/etc/rc3.d/S99screenblank with the following contents:

        #!/bin/sh

        #ident "@(#)screenblank

        if [ ! -f /net/bin/screenblank ]

        then # not found

                exit

        fi

        /net/bin/screenblank &

        echo 'Screenblank is running.'

Thanks to all for responding:

zpeller@trillian.icon.hu (Zoltan Peller Technical Support Engineer)

rene@iusti.univ-mrs.fr (Mr Rene Occelli)

fausto@poirot2.gia.ist.utl.pt (Fausto Almeida )

steve@cee.hw.ac.uk (Steve Salvini)

mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com (Mike Salehi)

tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)

nobroin@esoc.esa.de (Niall O Broin x 3619)

ncanas@mickey.Solsuni.pt ((Nuno.Canas) Presales Manager)

leclerc@austin.asc.slb.com

bern@penthesilea.uni-trier.de (Jochen Bern)

fallan@awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan - Network Manager)

tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com

mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com (Mike Salehi)

thomas@wiwi.hu-berlin.de (Thomas Koetter)

ldr@taec.com (Larry Ridenour)

mrs@cadem.mc.xerox.com (Mike Salehi)

Yossi Goltz <yossi@ddddf.com>

Dave Fetrow <fetrow@orac.biostat.washington.edu>

fausto@poirot2.gia.ist.utl.pt (Fausto Almeida )

zpeller@trillian.icon.hu (Zoltan Peller Technical Support Engineer)


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