Folks
Apparently "new" in Centos 7 is that the terminal screen does not blank after a period of time. This is a server configuration, and no GUI is involved. Is there some magic setting I need to tweek?
Thanks in advance
David
On 08/06/2014 05:47 PM, david wrote:
Folks
Apparently "new" in Centos 7 is that the terminal screen does not blank after a period of time. This is a server configuration, and no GUI is involved. Is there some magic setting I need to tweek?
Have you tried:
# setterm -blank 5
??
(I've often had to do the opposite to be able to view scrolling logs)
On 7.8.2014 04:09, KevinO wrote:
On 08/06/2014 05:47 PM, david wrote:
Folks
Apparently "new" in Centos 7 is that the terminal screen does not blank after a period of time. This is a server configuration, and no GUI is involved. Is there some magic setting I need to tweek?
Have you tried:
# setterm -blank 5
??
(I've often had to do the opposite to be able to view scrolling logs)
On version 5 I do
# /usr/bin/setterm -powerdown 0 -blank 0 -term console
to disable the blank screen. This looks more complicated than your setterm command and I do not know if the other parameters are relevant.
On version 6 there is a consoleblank=0 kernel parameter to disable the blank.
It is strange that you experience that. I am pretty sure I ran into a blanked CentOS 7 console last week.
At 08:50 AM 8/7/2014, you wrote:
On 7.8.2014 04:09, KevinO wrote:
On 08/06/2014 05:47 PM, david wrote:
Folks
Apparently "new" in Centos 7 is that the terminal screen does not blank after a period of time. This is a server configuration, and no GUI is involved. Is there some magic setting I need to tweek?
Have you tried:
# setterm -blank 5
??
(I've often had to do the opposite to be able to view scrolling logs)
On version 5 I do
# /usr/bin/setterm -powerdown 0 -blank 0 -term console
to disable the blank screen. This looks more complicated than your setterm command and I do not know if the other parameters are relevant.
On version 6 there is a consoleblank=0 kernel parameter to disable the blank.
It is strange that you experience that. I am pretty sure I ran into a blanked CentOS 7 console last week.
-- Kind Regards, Markus Falb
I tried the command "setterm -blank 1", and it changed nothing. The screen was still visible having been idle all night. I have seen this phenomenon on two platforms: - An ASUS laptop I'm using as a test-bed - VM Workstation 10 on windows 7 Centos 6x blanks after a reasonable period on both platforms.
Is there a command that can print out the current "setterm" settings?
David
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