[CentOS] Centos7 - Terminal not blanking

[david]

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