Here is something I've been using on SLES that I got off this list long long ago. It actually makes the console do a normal login, so you get the motd message and it even shows up as a login when you run the "who" or "w" commands. However, it still won't display the /etc/issue file unless you put "cat /etc/issue" in the script below.
In your inittab, replace the mingetty line for ttyS0 with: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L -n -l /sbin/consoleshell 9600 /dev/ttyS0 dumb Then create a script named /sbin/consoleshell with the following contents, and be sure to make it executable! #!/bin/sh exec /bin/login -f root Another thing I've done is replace /sbin/sulogin with this script: #!/bin/bash #Always log in without asking for a password HOME=/root exec -l /bin/bash --login --noprofile Then, if you go to single user mode or have an error, you are automatically in a root shell. Now, you can either remove or lock the root password and not worry about who knows it.. On 4/3/07, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey cool. It worked. Thanks Mark. I replaced the other 1: line with this line below. But it doesn't have the little line in the console that makes us feel all warm and fuzzy that the service finished booting correctly: That is "Welcome to SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (s390x) - Kernel 2.6.5-7.283-s390x" Any idea how I can keep that there? Marcy Cortes
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