Hello all, I have some global linux-questions: Global information of my system: I use Debian Gnu/Linux (testing) on a computer with a AMD Athlon processor. I am running kernel version 2.4.19 at this moment without patches. The system is configured with the ext3 filesystem on /dev/hda2 I have the following partitions: /dev/hda1 (swap) and /dev/hda2 (linux) 1. while booting How can I configure the system so that brltty is starting automatically while the system is booting? At the moment, brltty starts at boot-time because I have made a symbolic link from /sbin/brltty to /etc/rc.boot/brltty But, I have some errors. When I start brltty manually : ". /etc/rc.boot/brltty " with the link in /etc/rc.boot/, I receive the following error: bash: ELF???: command not found When I start it with the command " /sbin/brltty ": all goes well. After the braille display is started , the system is blocking. I have to press ctrl+c to cancel a certain process so that I can boot the system colpletelly. The last 5 lines that I can see before the computer stops booting are: Initializing random number generator... done. brltty[168]: Alva driver, version 2.1 Alva driver, version 2.1 brltty[168]: Using the Alva Delphi's built-in speech. Using the Alva Delphi's built-in speech. #end of this lines After I press ctrl+c to boot the rest of the system, I see the following messages after "Using the Alva Delphi's built-in speech." : INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon: syslogd. Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. Starting mouse interface server: gpm. Starting internet superserver: inetd. Where can I find the script/program/binary... that is blocking while booting the system? 2. console-lines Normally, my consoles are configured with 80 characters and 25 line. When I am working for some time on my computer, the lines on a console are reduced to 12 lines. This affects all the consoles on the whole system for all users , inclusive root. The problem isn't solved when I logout and login again on all the consoles . When this happens the system-variable LINES is set to 12 (at startup , it's set to 25)). When I change this variable to 25 with the following command: nothing happens. I do this with the following command: export LINES=25 What's the solution for this? 3. irssi-text Is it possible to hear a signal when a private message arrives on irc with irssi-text? If it's possible, which configurations do I need? best regards William Windels _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list