On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, David Talkington wrote:

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> 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).




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