Rc.sysinit

Very Maqbool · 07-26-2005, 02:18 AM

i want to remove the messages from the terminal which are displayed by the system initilization file rc.sysinit

i redirected the output of the rc.sysinit in inittab
i.e.

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit >> /output

but it gives the following error READ ONLY FILE SYSTEM
and it starts respawning....

why is it so?
is there any other alternative to remove the boot message?

Very Maqbool · 07-27-2005, 01:57 AM

I think that the file system mounted is read only.

basically i want to remove the boot messages from the terminal..
For this i want to point the /dev/console to /dev/null instead of /dev/tty0, which is the current terminal, the out put of the initilization files will move to write only file /dev/null. But how am i supposed to do this, as i don't know where the source code of the /dev/console lies..........

how can we point the /dev/console to /dev/null ?

whansard · 07-27-2005, 02:29 AM

skim through the man pages for getty and mingetty. mingetty by default clears the screen before the login prompt.
you may want to look at the bash man pages for redirection stuff.