So, two strange things that are probably clues: 1. I can change my inittab line to reference some non-existent executable (foo) instead of agetty, and init doesn't make any complaint to syslog after a 'init q'. It does log that it's reloading inittab, but nothing else. If I mess with the inittab syntax or command set (e.g. replacing 'respawn' with 'espawn', it also complains to syslog, but nothing logs for telling it to run a bogus program. 2. I've got no mingetty processes running on this machine either. I should have an instance for each of my virtual terminals. Maybe this is because there's not keyboard/mouse/monitor plugged in? CD - To unsubscribe from this list: 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