begin quoting Gus Wirth as of Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:17:45PM -0700: [snip] > True. Most systems seem to configured to erase the screen when the login > program, usually mingetty, is called. In order to see that information, > I change my /etc/inittab file (portion shown) like this: > > # Run gettys in standard runlevels > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 > 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 > 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 > 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 > 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 > > The --noclear option prevents mingetty from clearing the screen. Then > when the system finishes booting and is sitting at the login prompt you > can use SHIFT-PageUp to scroll back up the screen.
Nifty! I'll be trying that one out. > Beware that Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and Fedora 9 are moving to something > called Upchuck^H^H^H^H^H start which is supposed to be a "better" init > system. I find it to be a POS that takes what was a simple, centralized, > easy to understand file and now splits it up and scatters it all over > the place. That's what happens when an organization embraces complexity. :( -- I'll grant that they're very smart, but not that they're at all wise. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
