Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:42:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu> To: "Goeringer, Michael" <goeringerm@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Locking telnet screen Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980105164029.5263A-100000@ocala.cs.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <c=US%a=_%p=Rome?Lab%l=KEYWEST-980105214208Z-2875@keywest.ird.rl.af.mil>
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I'm thinking of making it a port/package....I'll email you the source tonight (EST). If there's enough interest in a better terminal locking util, I'd love to see more people using gone. We use it here at U.M. all the time. Joe Clarke On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Goeringer, Michael wrote: > Joe, > > Sounds like a neat utility, I'd like to get a copy. > Maybe you could make this available as a package or a port? > > Michael G. > > ---------- > From: Joe "Marcus" Clarke[SMTP:jmcla@ocala.cs.miami.edu] > Sent: Monday, January 05, 1998 3:53 PM > To: Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Locking telnet screen > > I wrote a terminal locking utility that improves over the built-in > 'lock'. If lock timesout, it will drop you back to your shell. If my > program times out, it will log you out. Also, with my program, you can > run a limited set of commands from the "gone shell." If you'd like, it > (it's free and ported to FreeBSD, Ultrix, OSF/1, and IRIX), I'll email > you the source. It comes with a man page that describes things better. > > Joe Clarke > > > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II wrote: > > > How would one lock a telnet screen so one could walk away from their > > station without closing the connection? > > > > John > > > > > > > > ********************************* > > * M C S N E T * > > * Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II * > > * jrs@mcs.net * > > ********************************* > > > > >
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