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Quick Update...
Running the ScreenSaverEngine directly is indeed troublesome as Basilisk pointed out. I found this shortly after I posted the hint so I wrote a short shell script that is run by cron instead:
With respect to enabling root, you do enable the "root" user once to set your Desktop & Screensaver preferences; however, you do not need to leave (nor should you) the "root" account enabled. The preferences, once written, are read on display of the ScreenSaver from the Login Window.
You could also, as Greg intimates, not ever enable the "root" user and simply have the default ScreenSaver display within the default time (this just wasn't an interesting choice to me).I had also d/l'd the Perl Scripts and App from: http://clc.its.psu.edu/Labs/Mac/Resources/psuscreensaver, but I thought this was a less invasive solution (and possibly easier to execute).
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Golly gee, there ain't no good reason why you should have to use so much unnecessarily excessive extraneous verbiage on something like this here thingy.
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Just a quick addition that checks to see if anyone is logged in before checking to see if the ScreenSaverEngine is running.
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If we're eliminating verbiage, some happy shell globbing can tame that long pathname, too:
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I'm pretty sure that the ** glob isn't a Bash-ism. You have to use single * characters. |
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