Tony Nugent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: 
> perl -spi -e 's,mingetty tty1$,mingetty tty1 --noclear,' /etc/inittab
> 
> This prevents the screen from clearing on the first tty when mingetty
> takes over.

You're treading on holy war territory on this. Unless something
drastic happens, this will *not* be changed.

All the boot messages should be in /var/log/boot.log and /var/log/messages.

>   Kudzu, when called from the rc script(s), should run on, say, tty2
>   (or the next available console, whatever), then switch back after it
>   is finished.  Easily achieved with a command line switch used by
>   (and mainly for) the rc script.

Obviously, this would have to be fixed for serial boots, but
we could look at this.

>   This is VERY handy!  It is done with this:
> 
>   Kernel \r on a \m 2-processor (\l)

The problem here is that the escapes aren't interpreted
the same way by the different *getty's. :(

Bill

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