[techtalk] Can the boot up screen be replaced?

[Anne Forker]

Hi Davida,

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Davida Schiff wrote:

> Thanks for the Link Liz. What I am refering to is the Red Hat specific
> screen (ie Welcome to Red Hat..).

Then Elizabeth has missed your point. ;-)

In /etc, you have 2 files named issue and issue.net. These files contain
the information which is displayed as a welcome screen. I've tried to
change these files on a RedHat 5.2 box -- but something in the system
rewrote them on shutdown or on bootup :-( -- maybe this has changed now.
I'm not so familiar with RedHat Linux yet.

You can find some information about the flags in
man 5 issue
man 5 issue.net

Hope this helps.

Anne