Re: Bigger annoyance with locking.

[Micah Cowan]

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Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> According to the manpage, screen calls /bin/lock or whatnot -- there's
> no way through .screenrc to change this (why?)...and yet the output of a
> locked screen looks significantly different from when I use lock alone.

It uses whatever's in $LOCKPRG. Looking at the current code, it seems
the message about /usr/bin/lock and /usr/local/lck is outdated: screen
appears to always use the builtin when $LOCKPRG isn't specified (this
may be due to known bugs in common lock implementations?). Anyway, make
sure $LOCKPRG is set appropriately in the foreground screen's environment.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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