setterm issue

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amd64

Hi All,

I have just started to use freebsd(8) again and when i issued the command setterm, it says that its not found and i search the ports and it does not exist.

Has this been taken out or something?


Many thanks


Paul
 
What's it supposed to do? I've never heard of it and I've been using fbsd since 3.0.

Googled it, looks like a Linux command. Please note that FreeBSD is not Linux.
 
Hi SirDice ,


The command i was issuing was setterm blank 0 stops the screen blanking after a certain time set there (0) is. I understand freebsd is not linux, its unix, but linux is part unix. Anyway im sure i used it on it, i certain used it on mac which is unix which i had a problem with which i solved with it.

Thanks
 
By default the screen doesn't blank. At least the console screen doesn't.

Are you running X?
 
sorry my misstake, i was using the same setterm command but trying to set the screen to blank after a minute. No i am not using X im just using the console as its only a vpnserver im setting up.
 
Speaking of the console, i guess what you are looking for is:
$ vidcontrol -t off

From vidcontrol(1):
Code: 
     -t N | off
             Set the screensaver timeout to N seconds, or turns it off.
 
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