Running from rc.local means the stdin isn't connected to anything. My guess is that in this case the select returns immediately with sys.stdin in 'e' and nothing in 'i' and 'o'. Your output is likely to be lost too as stdout won't be connected to anything either. Thank you for your reply. I dont kn...

Hello everyone, The following is the famous python code for checkin hitting of keyboard. import sys, select print "You have ten seconds to answer!" i, o, e = select.select( [sys.stdin], [], [], 10 ) if (i): print "You said", sys.stdin.readline().strip() else: print "You said nothing!" I boot up my P...