Yessirie bob, me too. I thought I was extremely clever here. I leave it
because I was setting up a standalone server. I do everything via telnet
from my Mac. The change in the log-in tells me for certain that the system
did, or has, successfully rebooted (it's in another room down the hall sans
monitor). Of course now that everything is configured and the machine sits
on an APS it's not so important, but I left it just the same.
DAve.
>
>Actually, I like the way the folks at Red Hat did that--- I can use that
>to verify that I upgraded my kernel correctly. =)
>
> - Mike
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>
>On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
>
>> For some bizarre reason, the folks at RedHat decided that
>> they want to overwrive /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
>> in one of the /etc/rc.d/ files, rc.local, I think.
>>
>> You can either put the "issue" stuff in there, or do the smart
>> thing, and delete all of that garbage that overwrites your
>> issue files.
>>
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>> > I am using Redhat 5.1 and what I want to do is change what is displayed
>> > before the login prompt for user that telnet and for me when I am
>>sitting on
>> > the console.
>> >
>> > The problem now is that when I change the contents of the issue file and
>> > then logout, it displays what I want. As soon as I reboot the old message
>> > comes back on there..
>> >
>> > What can I do to remedy this... it's very irritating!
>> >
>>
>>
>
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