I might be in left field but... in init.d create a script that simply echo_ip script contents #!/bin/bash ip -4 addr |grep inet |tee /var/log/ip # this will only print the ip lines and copy to /var/log/ip ( I prefer tee over echo, for a variety of reasons) then create S99echo_ip in rc3.d so that it runs last then On 12/8/2014 5:35 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: > CentOS 7 > > How do I print something on the text-mode console right after the OS > has finished booting? > > I've a virtual instance and I need to know its IP address after it has > finished booting up, to know where to ssh into it. I've tried adding > "ip -4 addr > /dev/tty0" to rc.local, but that obviously doesn't work, > because the login prompt overwrites everything I do. >