[CentOS] New /boot/message file?

[Mogens Kjaer]

On 07/15/2012 02:10 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be
> installed.
>
> Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message:
>
> -rw-r--r--    root     root       80032 Mar 12  2009 message
>
> Can anyone twll me what this message file is for please?

$ file message
message: PCX ver. 3.0 image data bounding box [0, 0] - [319, 199], 8-bit 
colour, 300 x 300 dpi, RLE compressed

$ display message

and you see a CentOS logo. Splash screen on boot?

Mogens

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