Re: How do you change the Linux Login prompt?

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From: James Harper
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 00:00

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Richard Bywater (bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz) wrote:
: dlyon@ipacific.net.au wrote:

: : Whenever anyone logs in they see the prompt:

: :  Red Hat Linux release 3.0.3 (Picasso)
: :  Kernel 1.2.13 on a i486

: : Where is this specified as I need to go in and change it.

: /etc/issue I think.  And the thing that comes up after you login in is 
: /etc/motd

what about the one that comes up when you finger a machine, as i have
seen in some slackware installations?

just wondering.

james

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From: loon@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au (James Harper)
Subject: Re: How do you change the Linux Login prompt?
Date: 1996/09/06
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