Turn off monitor? Remove Apache?
 

My computer has no button to turn off the monitor. Is there a way to turn it off (via the OS/software) so it doesn't burn an image into the screen? I'm half sure there is, since I've seen it done.

And a quick question. How do I fully remove Apache? I removed the package, but I still get Apache related errors on shutdown.

What are the errors? If you've uninstalled the package all of the executables should be gone. Were you seeing something like 'No such file or directory'?

If so, check /etc/rc.d/rc.6 & /etc/rc.d/rc.M for lines containing '/etc/rc.d/rc.httpd'. They should be wrapped in checks to see if the file is executable, but if the check has been removed you'll get an error when the script is run.

...and for the monitor use a screensave
xscreensaver

For Apache, I get:
And if I try xscreensaver I get an error:
Oh and I don't want a screensaver. I want the monitor 'off' (The power icon turns orange).

Okay my monitor turns black after some idle time, so that works. Still can't get that pid Apache error away.

On your monitor problem, if you have the acpi stuff running you can try using the xset command. It would look like this: xset dpms force off

that should work.

You can safely ignore the Apache error - it's trying to close it down but it's not running anyway. To stop it happening though, you can run chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd and that should stop it.

To shutdown monitor physically you have to have:
in xorg.conf in 'Monitor' section.

But isn't that for X? I don't use X because this is a server.

All the suggestions for your monitor so far have been for X. Does the monitor just blank and not power down? I had the same problem, I think its because, in layman's terms, the kernel doesn't know how to tell your graphics card to signal the monitor to power down, I never found a solution unfortunately

In my startup scripts I have the following to blank my monitor - I'd forgotten it was even there:

Yes, its in /etc/rc.d/rc.M by default, still certain graphics cards won't send the monitor to sleep when they're supposed to

A hot day here without the air conditioning on sends my monitor (and motherboard) to sleep with or without help from the software ;)

Thank you Oinopion!
I was wondering why the suspend mode only worked with other distros, i was missing Option "DPMS" i had recompiled my kernel and even tried tweaking rc.M and i still didn't know why my viewsonic only went blank, but not suspend. Learning new little things is one of the fun things of running slack

I'm still looking for a way to power off the monitor off via bash. If it idles, the monitor will "black" out but the monitor will still be on and emitting a light.