figured it out as soon as I sent that - tit's in /etc/inittab.conf (for the curious the line is: 1:123:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 ) it's the --noclear part I had to add. thanks anyway :-) JW _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list