On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 06:40:22PM +0200, Pixel wrote:
> > > I just su'd to root in an Eterm to run rdate and it turned my monitor
> > > off! When I hit alt it came back up, rdate was done and the time was
> > > changed.
> > >
> > > Has anyone had this happen before and/or can duplicate it? I was in
> > > GNOME as vdanen and su'd to root to do it.
> > >
> > > LM 7.1b3 still (waiting on powerpack) so I don't know if this is
> > > something still in 7.1 but it struck me as really odd...
> > ^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Yes. Is someone can reproduce it? All works fine here.
>
> doesn't seem to be a big pb for me. It means you were out of date and jump
> forward in time, the screensaver decided it was time to go off!
>
> as far as i know, it's Xfree which does this suspend
Ahhh... ok, that makes sense. <phew>
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