The beeping "login:" prompt makes life much easier for the user who is blind. The archive login-beep-rh5.tar.gz installs a modified /bin/login and /sbin/mingetty. This should work fine for Redhat 5.x but will _not_ work with SuSE 5.3 (Be warned: you cannot login again into your SuSE box because SuSE 5.3 uses another 'login' binary). First backup your old files: copy your /bin/login to /bin/login.old and copy your /sbin/mingetty to /sbin/mingetty.old. If you should have login problems later, you can access your computer using your boot disk or rescue disk and copy your login.old and mingetty.old into login and mingetty. Now put this archive into the / directory and extract it doing a tar -xzf login-beep-rh5.tar.gz To enjoy full beeping feature, you still need to tell mingetty that it should beep when it displays your login message. (This is the message "Redhat Linux release x.y Kernel x.y") This is done by adding a '\a' (without the '') to the /etc/issue file. But consider that eventually your /etc/issue file is overwritten every time when your box is booting. Therefore check out the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local. If there is a line echo "" > /etc/issue change it into echo "\a" > /etc/issue Enjoy! Hans