On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:14:06 GMT, davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) said: > > > Or people who want it that way could put the setterm call in their > > rc.local, of course. No patches required and the rest of the world > > doesn't have to turn it on. > > Of course, this means that you have to know beforehand that your > machine is going to panic. Unless it panics in the boot and never loads the first startup file you can execute the blank disable there. > Rob Landley is right - there should be a patch to make it go away > if the kernel panics. There should be a lot of things, including writing the dump to a disk partition like AIX, Solaris, etc, etc. That never got in, either. I'd rather see the blank disable as a configurable boot time option, so people who don't want it don't get it, and vice-versa. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.