I'm sure your kernel mods to keep TTY settings after a close work fine, but what's wrong with: pause: main() { pause(); } and in /etc/rc: pause > /dev/lpr & If you have many printers, write the trivial program to open them all up and then pause(). You can even do the kludge of opening /tmp and /bin to keep their inodes in core. Whatever, Dan Ts'o ...cmcl2!rna!dan