----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Samuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "maverick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Turning monitor blanking off... > I've got it working as follows: > > mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab > echo "bl:7:once:/usr/bin/setterm -blank 0" \ > > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/90noblank > /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/inittab > /sbin/telinit -q > I copied/pasted the above options and received the following results: [root@e-smith /root]# mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab [root@e-smith /root]# echo "bl:7:once:/usr/bin/setterm -blank 0" \ > /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/90noblank bl:7:once:/usr/bin/setterm -blank 0 /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab/90noblank [root@e-smith /root]# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/inittab [root@e-smith /root]# /sbin/telinit -q /sbin/telinit: invalid option -- q Usage: telinit 0123456SsQqAaBbCcUu I removed the '-' and manually ran: [root@e-smith /root]# /sbin/telinit q ...and that was it. Now, my question is - Was it supposed to create a file somewhere called "90noblank"? I don't have a complete understanding of the template-expansion system as of yet, since this is the first time I'm actually played with it. If it was supposed to create that file somewhere, it didn't. The /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/inittab directory is just an empty directory. I'm going to try a reboot.... Okay. I've rebooted the machine and, believe it or not, the monitor still goes blank after about 10 minutes. I'm almost to the point of giving up now. :/ Thanks, Matt --
