How to disable console screen blanking?
Issue
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On RHEL-5 below command worked to avoid the console blanking:
setterm -powersave off -blank 0It no longer works for RHEL6. Console here means the default VGA screen output, which comes from IPMI redirected KVM.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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