[Sussex] Turn off console blanker?

John Crowhurst fyremoon at fyremoon.net
Fri Apr 4 11:38:01 UTC 2003


> Hi Guys,
>
> Can someone please remind me how I turn off the console blanker? I don't
> want to install and run X on a server but I do want to be able to watch
> a long-term process or tail -f various logs.

In Slackware (the distribution I'm using) the command that switches on
blanking is in /etc/rc.d/rc.M:

/bin/setterm -blank 15

If you set this to 0 it will disable the console blanking.

--
John







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