On Wed, 8 May 2002, Jason Fayre wrote: > In your /etc/inittab file, near the end, you will see 6 lines > starting with a number 1 through 6. Just add it to the end. The other lines make no difference (for this functionality). > Add a line under that that says: > 7:respawn:/sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS0 vt100 This must have been taken from a Slackware system (and the line syntax was badly broken anyway). Red Hat does not ship agetty. You can use getty (from the getty_ps package), or mgetty, if that package is installed (better control of bells, etc): t0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -r1 ttyS0 DT9600 There is more detail in previous postings (see the blinux archives), but if you are going for certification, you will no doubt find the standard documentation more appropriate. A more interesting aspect of the original question would concern how one would add the needed line to the inittab file before the system was accessible. In the real world, I guess a likely method might be via a custom script on a rescue floppy, or perhaps interactively through a speech enabled rescue CD, modified from one of the recent CD rescue distributions. Or to access, say, a running network server, from another linux machine, one would probably just scp down a copy of inittab, modify it, and scp it back (not that one would have much use for a serial terminal in an already networked environment -- for bootup and emergencies?). But I am curious about what would be acceptable in a certification course environment. -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html