On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 07:28, Simon wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > what exactly is your requirement such that you need crontab to actually > > turn it on and off? > > OK I managed to get it working by placing the xset commands inside files > which have been set as executable, then telling crontab to execute the > files instead of directly executing the xset command itself. > > The reason for wanting this is that the laptop its on is going to be > used as a viewing client for a pc based cctv system in our home. Using > zoneminder on a main pc in the spare bedroom, this laptop is going to Hmm.. Zoneminder.. Intersting... Time to read... Thanks.. -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 20:39:05 up 59 min, 4 users, load average: 0.30, 0.89, 1.13
