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