Re: Setting console timeouts

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

steve said:
> I was wondering it there a way to prevent the console from turning the
> monitor off?  For instance if you want to run a program like iptraf and
> leave it running all the time, and always have it within eye sight.

could you turn off apm? (boot with lilo option apm=off)

I would reccomend some other package other then iptraf for continous
monitoring, unless you have a really small amount of traffic your
watching for, the lists that it builds can get really really big, real
fast.

perhaps tcpdump + some log analysis package? I was looking into sawmill
at the beginning of the year and it looked like a excellent logging
package,. http://www.sawmill.net/features.html#10  it is not free,
but at least at the time it was head and shoulders above any other
tcpdump log package i could find.

I use Puresecure(www.puresecure.com) to monitor my network, free for
home/non-commercial use. it's basically a packaged frontend to snort
and mysql, runs quite well. I've been using it for a bit over a year
now.


nate