Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Robert Lyonnais wrote:

> Thank you.
> 
> Would you happen to know where this is set by default during startup?
> I would like to change the current setting but I have been unable to
> find setterm anywhere in my startup scripts.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Robert
> 
> On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:42:55 -0700 (MST), you wrote:
> 
> >setterm -blank n  
> >n = blank time in minutes (0 = no blank)


I'm not sure (I believe that 10 minutes is the default and it may be
compiled into some routine).  You can add a new setting to one of your
startup scripts.   I created a file /etc/init.d/local for such things.

Bob

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