... ciao: on "3-4-2004" "Luca Ferrari" writ: : produced as syslog output ... but it seems ok : cfline(kern.warn;*.err;authpriv.none /dev/tty10) this is just a guess. above you are sending 'syslogd' output to vt10. my inittab vt's entry look like this: "9:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty9" RH ships with a default of 6 vt(s), so i had to add the rest. you will note that each vt is tied to 'mingetty'. if you don't have an entry in 'inittab' for the tenth vt, it seems to me that 'syslogd' output is going to hang at "mingetty's" target. like i said , just a guess ... -- ... i'm a man, but i can change, if i have to , i guess ... - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html