SUMMARY: Need Non-X screen saver for Solaris

From: David Gunn (gunn@lardav.com)
Date: Tue Jul 04 1995 - 04:21:06 CDT

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) 

-- 
David Gunn

Company: Larson-Davis, Inc
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