Dave, Thanks for clarifying this problem. Everything is really working nicely now. John On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by John J. Boyer on December 29, 2001, at 08:56] > > >So now I think the problems were caused by the place in > >the botup sequence at which it was called. > > You bet they were! Now that I've looked at the script you snet me, the problem > is obvioius. Have a look at the code just below where you start BRLTTY. > > # Rerun ourselves through initlog > if [ -z "$IN_INITLOG" ]; then > [ -f /sbin/initlog ] && exec /sbin/initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -r /etc/rc.sysinit > fi > > The rc.sysinit script, if invoked directly, reruns itself so that it's under > the control of initlog. This will, of course, result in BRLTTY being started > twice. You can either move your starting of BRLTTY beneath this if statement, > or start it from inittab as documented in the manual. I'll add a note about > this problem to the manual. Thank you. > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703