Sorry, I deleted the original message before I realized that I might have an answer. The original question was about suppressing verbose messages at boot. In the file: /etc/defaults/rcS # Set VERBOSE to "no" if you would like a more quiet bootup. VERBOSE=yes Hope this helps. -- Regards, Steve Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades.