Unless you are tied to agetty for a reason, mingetty does this automatically. Works similar to Sun's console getty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null