> > Presumably that is possible if you started the network either in %pre or > in %post -- each with it's own set of perks (and problems?) ;-) > >From a cursory examination of the appropriate Anaconda Python module, it shouldn't be too difficult, assuming that any remote host provided must be provided by IP, since DNS is not necessarily working. At any rate, as soon as the IP stack is up and running and the system has an address and a gateway (if necessary), then sending messages via UDP to an external syslogd is elementary. Still, I like the mechanism available on *BSD via the 'logger' command. $0.02, Klaus