Sebastian Canagaratna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Recently my machine (pentium, linux kernel 2.4.18, sarge), used
> used to blank after 5 min, suddenly stopped blanking. I looked
> around and found that I could set it with setterm -blank time.
> This presumable would have to be done everytime one booted. In any
> case, I found that when I rebooted the problem had vanished, but
> I would still like to know how one sets the blank time permanently in
> some file. Where is this information held? I have not been able to
> find this from any of the man pages or the Oreilly Linux book.
Include the command "setterm -blank 5" (or whatever time you
want) in your .bash_profile. (This assumes you're running bash.
Substitute the appropriate start-up file for another shell.)
Regards,
Bob
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