Re: setterm -store doesn't stick

1999-12-31 Thread Shaul Karl
I can not tell why -store does not store but a work around might be to put something like the following lines in your .bashrc: power_save() { if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then setterm -powersave on fi } power_save --- Begin Message --- I'm trying to do a setterm -store (-powersave off -powerdow

setterm -store doesn't stick

1999-12-30 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
I'm trying to do a setterm -store (-powersave off -powerdown 20), but every time I get a new logon screen (mingetty), everything gets reset to default. I used to be able to do this in RedHat (5.2, way-back-when), also using mingetty, but now it won't work. What am I doing wrong? -- "I already