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Re: How to avoid the screen timeout when no activity



On Wednesday 15 January 2003 06:57 am, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote:
> On za, 2003-01-11 at 14:05, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Am 18:02 2003-01-07 -0800 hat Jeremy C. Reed geschrieben:
> > >On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Samantha Scafe wrote:
> > >> How can avoid the timeout of the monitor.
> > >
> > >Look at setterm(1).
> > >
> > >Try:
> > > setterm -blank 0
> >
> > This works only, if you have minimal one login after reboot...
> > Is there a possibility to get it without login ???
>
> No need to login. Just add the command to a file in /etc/init.d/ and
> make sure that file is executable and is linked to the various
> /etc/rc?.d directories. See the update-rc.d manpage.

Or you can just set the BLANK_TIME variable in /etc/console-tools/config to 0, 
and this will be done automatically with the rest of the initialization.  No 
need to set it twice.

 - Keegan



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