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you can change the /etc/issue, but that's not really a nice thing to do, should really put anythign you might want to display in /etc/motd (Message Of The Day)
Sorry acid_kewpie that's not where it is on Mandrake. Besides that shadowhacker wants something that is displayed 'before' they login. MOTD is only displayed 'after' they login.
The file you need to alter is the /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
In there will be a section that starts with:
# This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any changes you
# want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
This is my customised version. I get cron to run it every hour so that the uptime on the linux logo gets updated. It also gives me the linux logo on a telnet session.
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if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ];then
/usr/bin/linux_logo -c -n -f -u > /etc/issue
echo "" >> /etc/issue
else
> /etc/issue
fi
echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m) / \l" >> /etc/issue
echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on a telnet session" >> /etc/issue.net
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