Re: Silly question about "lock"

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Micah Cowan wrote:

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> Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> > hey, is there a way to customize the message displayed on the "lock",
> > for example:
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> > Whether it was locked by time, or idle?
> > What time it was locked?
> > What HOST it's running on?
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> These could all be managed now, through the use of a custom "lock"
> program (specified via the $LOCKPRG environment variable).

Of which I can't find any useful that solve the problems I'm looking to 
solve -- those problems manifested after I started this thread, tho.

> You could differentiate between "idle" locks and explicit locks by 
> having "idle" give the lock program a special arg or something.

Really?  How?  Will idle accept full-on commands, or just "screen" 
commands?

> I don't believe we'll implement these in screen's built-in lock program
> at this time.

The hostname tweak is a three line patch (that BSD already has as an 
option).

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/screen/files/opt-hostinlocked?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain;sortby=date

The others, could be done by having "lockscreen" accept arguments.

Trent's issue (i.e. wanting both a blanker and a lock) could be solved by 
accepting multiple "idle" arguments.

-Dan

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