[techtalk] Can the boot up screen be replaced?

[Marie Fischer]

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Anne Forker wrote:

> 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.

In rh6.2 it's still the same - they are overwritten in /etc/rc.d/rc.local 
at startup. If you don't like it, you might as well comment it out and
change /etc/issue. /etc/motd (message of the day) is for text shown
_after_ succesful login.

-- 
marie