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