[ale] Shutting off screen blanking

[Jonathan Rickman]

On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Glenn C. Lasher Jr. wrote:

> 
> I have a machine I am using at my house for a firewall, it is a K5/166 MB
> mounted in an old lunchbox case with a built-in B&W LCD monitor, and I am
> running it in console mode.
> 
> What I would like to do (if possible) is turn off screen blanking
> (a) because it is not necessary and (b) because it gets in the way.  Can
> anyone tell me how to do this?

I believe the command you're looking for is setterm. There are several
options, so you'll have to read up.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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