I need to either stop my computer from entering sleep and suspend mode after idle time,
or vastly increase the default time. I have read the limited information available on acpi,
and found nothing about how to change these. I now know how to PUT my computer into
sleep mode with /proc, but still now clue how to change the darn things that's doing it after
10 minutes.

I need a bash solution, this is causing me problems at run level 3. Here's more details:
-Boot up slackware to run level 3
-View LFS book with lynx
-<alt>-f2 to another shell and chroot to do LFS compiling
-Start a long compile. I try not to interfere with this, as I've had problems
using any other shells while this was going on.
-After 10 or so minutes, my screen goes blank, and my cpu enters sleep or suspend mode.
-I enter a key that wouldn't effect the compile (<alt>-f2 again or something)
-Screen comes back up, compiling is stopped dead in its tracks.
-A single tear rolls down my face.

(I didn't know which forum to put this, as it's more a Slackware issue than LFS, so I
threw it in newbie since it regards basic system setup)

Stupid question: what happens if you just kill acpid? Or stop it from coming up at boot?

Definately worth trying :P

Do you know how I would kill it from the command line without looking up the pid?
That way I could do it only when I'm working on LFS, vice shutting down the startup script

Thanks gypsi

Ah, I see, not a stupid question after all!

To kill it, something like:
kill $(ps -ef | grep acpid | grep sbin | awk '{print $2}')

To stop it from coming up at boot (in Slack):
chmod ugo-x /etc/rc.d/rc.acpid

GR

Great, thanks

Well, I ended up killing acpid and it didn't do the trick. It turns out that by compiling
acpid support into my kernel I was allowing it to also perform acpid tasks as well as
the daemon. The following line in my /etc/rc.d/rc.M is what was doing it.

/bin/setterm -blank 15 -powersave powerdown -powerdown 60

This is set before acpid is even loaded, turns out it's bash talking directly to the kernel.
The -blank option is how you change the time in minutes. I guess acpid just allows another
way for programs to communicate with acpid through /proc.