It would appear that on May 8, Matthew Saltzman did say: > In /etc/inittab, scan down to the section about gettys. Add the option > '--noclear' to the end of the first mingetty command. That will prevent > the screen clear when the login prompt is issued so you can > <shift>-<pageup>. You mean like: # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear Thanks. This looks like what I was looking for. -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>>