Disabling console/terminal blanking

[Ramer Ortega]

Maybe I need to clafiry a bit. 

I am trying to display the Nagios and MRTG output in these PCs using a 
browser.  I disabled apmd and there is no screensaver running.  I want 
to keep the screens up all the time.

I am using RedHat 9 with gnome desktop. 


Tom Callahan wrote:

>Is this an X window console....or a straight CTRL-ALT-F1 console? There
>is a difference.
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>Thanks,
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>Tom Callahan
>TESSCO Technologies
>(443)-506-6216
>callahant at tessco.com
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>A real engineer only resorts to documentation when the keyboard dents on the forehead get too noticeable.
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>Ramer Ortega wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>RedHat (and most Linux distro and Unix flavors) automatically blanks
>>the screen (both text console and X display) when there is no keyboard
>>or mouse activity for some time.  I always thought it is a good
>>feature, preventing "burns" on the monitor.  Until I decided to
>>migrate our datacenter's monitoring PC from Windows to RedHat.
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>>We are using a combination of Nagios and MRTG to monitor our servers
>>and the network bandwidth.  The resulting HTML pages are displayed in
>>some Windows-based PCs manned by datacenter operators.  So the good
>>behavior of Linux to blank the console is not applicable here.
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>>Things I have tried:
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>>   * disable the power management in the BIOS
>>   * call "setterm -blank 0" during boot up (works only for VT)
>>   * disable apmd
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>>Still, my consoles go blank.  Any other way to disable this feature?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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