Re: Automatic Screen Blanking
Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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
setterm is not called. The kernel itself sets this value. setterm is
merely a wrapper around a kernel call to change the timeout. As Bob
said, create a local script in init.d, put a symlink to it in rc2.d call
S99local, and all is well. The S means S and the 99 means run it last.
so in /etc/init.d there is a script called 'local' w/:
#!/bin/sh
setterm -blank x <- where X is what you want
in /etc/rc2.d there is a file 'S99local' which is a symlink ->
/etc/init.d/local.
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