Re: Console blanking.

[Technical Support <tech@oatka.net>]

This did it. Actuall there is no need to redirect the out put unless you
are on a pty. Of course the question would then be Why are you logging to
a tty? 

Thanks guys. Virt Beer on me.

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Charlie Hedlin wrote:

> Technical Support wrote:
> > 
> > stty: invalid argument `-blank`
> > 
> > To further complicate matters (I know I should have given all info first,
> > I just didn't think about it) i have syslog logging to a non-gettied tty.
> > Unless I am wrong (please say that I am) stty affected the tty it was
> > called on.
> > 
> 
> 
> I sent an answer without it going to the list by accident, it is setterm
> -blank 0, and you can redirect the output to the desired tty, 
> 
> so 
> 
> setterm -blank0 > /dev/tty[FOO]
> 
> 
> man setterm for more options (regarding powersave etc., but you
> shouldn't need them at first).
> 
> 
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