Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

[rjlyonnais@sympatico.ca (Robert Lyonnais)]

THANK YOU for the detailed explanation.

Things are working like I needed.

Cheers,

Robert

On Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:19:09 -0400, you wrote:

SNIP

>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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