[Gllug] Turning off screensaver

[Richard Cohen]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Jonathan Dye wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any way to turn off the blanking of the text console?
>
> We have a machine that keeps dying and it doesn't have a keyboard or monitor
> plugged into it normally.  I'd like to be able to plug in a monitor when it
> has died and see if there are any messages on the screen.  The problem is
> that the screen is blanked and needs a keypress to wake up.  It's not really
> a very important machine and it would be inconvenient to plug a keyboard and
> monitor in permanently but if turning off the screen blanking is non-trivial
> i'll do it.

Have a look at 'man setterm'

> JD

Cheers
Richard

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