Greg, Thanks, I had not thought about that. However, while it silences speakup throughout the boot process, it leaves it in a normal fully functional state when the booting is completed, and that's not what I wanted to achieve. I may just have to enter the desired "you turned me off" sequence when logging into each console. Chuck -- Chuck in Hudson. My website is hallenbeck.ftml.net, and my Jabber ID is chuckh1 at jabber.org ----- I'm an early riser: I normally wake up about o dark hundred hours.
