stan <stanl-fedorau...@vfemail.net> writes:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2018 12:56:43 -0700
> Wolfgang S Rupprecht <wolfgang.ruppre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That looks like a fine solution if you are logged in on a terminal and
>> you want to change it for your current terminal.  I'm not sure how
>> that would work from rc.local.  How would I tell it to do that to all
>> the vt's?  (I tried the stdin and stdout as redirection targets but it
>> didn't seem to work.)
>
> A quick search turned up these pages, which should get you a little
> further on your journey.
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/152347/change-linux-console-screen-blanking-behavior
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8056/disable-screen-blanking-on-text-console

Thanks.   Those are both 7 years old and things appear to have changed
much.

[wolfgang@arbol ~]$ setterm -blank 600
setterm: argument error: 600

Not only is the "-blank" missing but I believe it applies to the current
tty.  That would make it difficult to slip into /etc/rc.local .

-wolfgang
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