03-19-2006
Yes, that fixed it!
I did a slight variation based on what I found in a Slackware rc.local script.
Quote:
exec </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1
Not sure if it makes much difference (I have to burn another CD to find out), but I'm happy the script is behaving itself now.
Thanks for helping :-)
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