On 7/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote:
Is there a program that will lock my text consoles for me if I'm idle for a while? Something like: while !KeyboardInterrupt /* nobody's typing */ sleep 5m /* OK, they're really gone forever */ clear vlock --all Or something. xlock with the timer but without the X.
this would be nice, but it would have to run in the background unattached to the tty, I don't think vlock will work properly if its started that way..
just as a quick test i tried: [eb@plato ~]$ vlock &and i my console was instantly being spewed with Password: prompts over and over again, I had to switch to another console and kill it :( (hint: when playing with vlock don't use -a, unless you have a way in though the network, be prepared to press the reset button and fsck your filesystems to hell)
maybe if you ran a script in the foreground on another console you don't use but then it would probably see it as idle...
also what would it do if you were running a interactive program like say lftp? Ethan