Cheryl, the command that you gave puts ^g in /etc/issue. -- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > One answer would be to put contrl-g in the /etc/issue file but i didn't > figure out how to do it. > the other is as follows: > echo -e \\a >>/etc/issue > sounds the alert (bell) at login. > My computer already boots at the boot prompt--or actually, close enough to > it for me to manage, but the computer i'm working on doesn't, so I'm going > to try to find a way to put something like this in lilo.conf too. > But appending won't work in that case. > > -- > Cheryl > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >