Good time of the day, Jude. You worte: >No point in doing that at all. If you want to see those messages >after login as root or as sudo root do dmesg >dmesg.log. Then less >dmesg.log will let you view those messages one screen at a time. Also >for a You can shorten that to dmesg |less - no need to file redirection (in some cases like no free space it even can be more useful, IMHO) :o) Sthu.