On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:03:13PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: > > >=20 > > > # to get rid of blanking of console: > > > setterm -blank 0 > > >=20 > > > 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*.) > > Thanks, I see how that works (noblank needs to be executable), but > assumed there was some obvious script file checked during boot.
I think that's what Red Hat does. Debian has a directory full of individual scripts for each operation, and other directories full of symlinks to call the relevant scripts at change of runlevel. I much prefer the Debian way... -- 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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