On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing > at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. > So now it has the line > MOTD_FILE /etc/motd > for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, > I get > configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator), and > something > similar if I attempt to use /etc/issue. > > Looking at /bin/login with strings(1), I find a format string that would > produce this output. > > Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the > greeting?
Is this a console login or via ssh? Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? /etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff like telnet and rlogin, never for console login. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
