At 07:46 AM 8/9/00 +0530, Webmaster - prayagonline.com wrote:
>hi,
> i have 2 ery simple questions :
>
>1.) I need to issure the commands halt / reboot from a telnet connection
>logged on as a different user ... so what to do ??
If you are accessing the machine remotely, you have to be root to do this.
(Do you *really* want anyone who can log into your system able to reboot or
halt it? I don't.) So the only option is to su to root then execute the
commands.
>2.) I want to change the message that appears befor the login prompt ...
> i changes the /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
>
>but ti guess that got overwritten when i rebooted ..
>
Yes. Or at least probably yes. grep through the init scripts for the ones
that write to issue and issue.net (varies by distribution) and comment out
the troublesome lines.
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Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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