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From: dlnash@ut-emx.UUCP (Donald L. Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Screen dimmer needed for console
Keywords: dimmer, console, inits
Message-ID: <10612@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 89 20:37:34 GMT
References: <523@ivucsb.UUCP* <1401@umbio.MIAMI.EDU* <137@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <137@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu>, barad@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Herb Barad) writes:
> In article <1401@umbio.MIAMI.EDU* aem@Mthvax.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:
> *This has been posted before. It is a screen dimmer by Earl Wallace
> *at Apple. We use it here on our macs.
> 
> This is a nice dimmer and in fact we use it on our A/UX Macs.
> However, it must be run manually from the console once after booting.
> It cannot be run automatically from the inittab file, else it will not
> be associated with the console and tends to cause many other troubles.

I run it from inittab just fine.  Just redirect stdout to /dev/console
and it works.  Here is my line from inittab:

dim::once:/usr/local/bin/dimmer -p 0 > /dev/console

				Don Nash

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