Jim Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Joseph L. Casale > <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote: > >>How does one access the properties associated with the blanking CentOS does at init3? >> How would I disable this for example? > > > You'd use setterm for this. See this thread -> > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-June/048330.html Not sure this works when run from an init script - I couldn't get it to work - so I use: echo -n '^[[9;0]' > /dev/console where ^[ is the Escape character - see console_codes(4) James Pearson