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Article #1336Re: fbshow in rc.local
From: Holger Uhr
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 18:40
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 18:40
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Ray Lauff (ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu) wrote: : Does anyone know what the command : : fbshow -a -b -e -i "Starting*Local*Services..." : : does in the default /etc/rc.local file?? There isn't a man : page for it, it wasn't in the NeXTStep 2.1 /etc/rc.local file, : and it's the little things like this that can drive a : system administrator batty. : : Thanks in advance for any info. : : Ray : ray@astro.temple.edu It produces the startup messages next to the picture of the spinning hard disk you can see while booting. It also does the necessary localization of the message (though on my station it sometimes mixes german with english text). The '*' mark the line breaks. I don't know the meaning of the options. Greetings, Holger Uhr -- | Holger Uhr *** Engernweg 32 *** W-4790 Paderborn *** Germany | |E-Mail: huhr@uni-paderborn.de Phone: 05251-58950| |How to become immortal: Read this signature tomorrow and follow its advice.|
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!dct.zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!pbinfo!huhr From: huhr@uni-paderborn.de (Holger Uhr) Subject: Re: fbshow in rc.local Message-ID: <1992Oct8.184055.11848@uni-paderborn.de> Sender: news@uni-paderborn.de (News Uni-Paderborn) Nntp-Posting-Host: jenis Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1992Oct8.050332.16821@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:40:55 GMT Lines: 29