On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Casey Bralla wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:16:34 -0700, Mika Koivisto wrote:
> 
> >I want to change my log-on look and feel, so what file(s) I should mess with.

--snip--

> You can change the "/etc/issue" file.  Beware though, that it is
> re-written by RH 5.0 on startup from the inittab (I think) file.

Actually, RH rewrites this from /etc/rc.d/rc.local. You can comment out
the lines dealing with /etc/issue, then customize /etc/issue to your
heart's content. See `man mingetty` for a listing of escape sequences to
use in /etc/issue.

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