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> I have been intending to raise this issue for a while, but with the
> 6.2 release about to arrive, if it isn't too late already then there
> is some hope than at least some of these suggestions might be
> seriously considered for inclusion in the 6.2final. And/or the
> rawhide releases after that.
>
>
> I have a shell script that I run over every redhat box that I install
> (either manually after the system comes up, or from kickstart).
> This is one of the things it does:
>
> 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. Why do I do this? Because I want to be able to SEE the
> bootup messages - they give useful information about the success of
> the rc bootup scripts, yet by default you are only given a brief time
> in which to study them before it is all vaporised? Why clear it when
> so much work has been done to make it look so useful?
What is wrong with dmesg?
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Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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