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In article <1992Oct8.130929.18072@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu writes:
>In article <1992Oct8.050332.16821@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>  
>ray@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Ray Lauff) writes:
>=>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.
>=>
>
>This displays the niftly little panel during a non-verbose boot.  fbshow -a -b  
>-e -i invokes a specialized rom monitor routine that provides the "graphical"  
>boot up (little pictures of spinning disks, ethernet cable, Optical, etc).   
>The "Starting*Local*Services...." tells the routine to add that text to the  
>panel.  I believe that the * is like a lf/cr...

Right.  I've actually used it for my own rc.local scripts.  It works
ok, BUT...why don't my rc.local scripts get executed???  I have 2 -
one is 'nppower off' and that's fine.  The other is the screensaver
I got of the net long time ago.  You're supposed to run it in the
background, like:
  /usr/local/bin/newscreensaver &
Then it dims your screen to whatever /LocalApps/sreensaver.aux@ is
pointing to (I use 'justblack').  The problem is that the above
line never gets invoked from the rc.local file.  When I log on,
I can never see newsreensaver running when I use 'ps -aux'.
If I invoke it manually from the shell, it works ok.

What's going on?  If any of this rings a bell, please email me.
-Andrew


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