On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: > > # to get rid of blanking of console: > setterm -blank 0 > > but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global > effect rather than just in account configurations.
# cat > /etc/init.d/noblank #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/setterm -blank 0 echo 'Console blanking disabled' ^D # chmod a+x /etc/init.d/noblank # ln -s /etc/init.d/noblank /etc/rc2.d/S99noblank (These blanking things would be rather more useful if they could be configured to blank after a certain time with no input *and no output*.) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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