Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: kim@shell.UUCP (Kim Zrubek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: screen saver on 386i Keywords: 386i Message-ID: <8904171446.AA07903@bonsai.IC.shell.com> Date: 27 Apr 89 04:13:12 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 10 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 89 09:46:31 CDT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 256, message 8 of 12 The process "/bin/screenblank -l -d 600" executes on a Sun 386i. This process will cause the screen to black out and print the bouncing Sun logo after 10 minutes of keyboard and mouse inactivity. Can someone explain were screenblank gets started? Is this strictly started by users, or does the system start it at boot time. The command is not in the /etc/rc* files. The parent process is always /sbin/init. The /etc/ttytab entry is: console "/usr/etc/getty -n std.9600" sun on secure