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disabling screensaver (monitor off)

Anybody know, how to prevent the monitor to
go blank in console mode?

Regards, Oli

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EatEmAndSmile

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Oli2

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Hi, EatEm, thanx for your answer.
I use SUSE Linux, and there's no setterm found either by using grep -l setterm * or by using grep -l setterm */* inside the /etc/rc.d directory. Also, there's no rc.local file where I could append the setterm -blank 0. Also, there's no rc.M file.
Regards, Oli

EatEmAndSmile

Strange, very strange... Well, tell me what does "ls" give you inside the /etc/rc.d

Do:

cd /etc/rc.d

ls

Gimme the output, please.

Oli2

ASKER

...
README
apache
at
axnet
boot
boot.d
boot.local
boot.setup
cdb
cron
dummy
file.txt
gpm
halt
halt.local
i4l
i4l_hardware
inetd
init.d
inn
ipfwadm
kbd
kerneld
lpd
named
network
nfs
nfsserver
pcnfsd
powerfail
random
rc
rc0.d
rc1.d
rc2.d
rc3.d
rc4.d
rc5.d
rc6.d
rcS.d
reboot
route
routed
rpc
rwhod
sendmail
serial
single
skeleton
svgatext
sybase
syslog
xdm
ypclient

regards, Oli

Oli2

ASKER

file.txt was for the ls > file.txt command

EatEmAndSmile

Oh, no... You've got that rc.X (where X is always a number that says nothing useful) on your system.

Well, guess it will be harder to find the setterm there.

Ok, you could put the "setterm -blank 0" on your .bashrc / .profile / .bash_profile file, so it would work at least while you're logged in.

Give it a try...

EatEmAndSmile

By the way, run by hand:

setterm -blank 0

To see if your system at least does have the command.

Oli2

ASKER

running it by hand works fine and that's all I need.
Fortunately Linux does not need a reboot every day, like Windows does ;-)

Regards, Oli

EatEmAndSmile

Yeah, ok... Cool!