On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, David Talkington wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bill Crawford wrote: > >> Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) > >> Kernel 2.4.7-10 on an i686 > >> login: > > /etc/issue.net > > That file is _generated_ at boot time. If you modify it yourself, get > rid of the code in /etc/rc.d/rc.local which writes to it, or _you_ will > generate profanity at boot time. ;-) > > Ditto for /etc/issue, which is displayed to console logins.
Depends on the version. I thought this was changed in Enigma, might even have been Seawolf; anyway nowadays it's a static file, which uses escape sequences to include the kernel version and CPU at runtime (at least when mingetty is launched). _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list