> From: Scott Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> I'm trying to tighten security on my machine up before I get xDSL, and one of
> the things I'd like to do is stop advertising my OS and Hardware- editing
> /etc/issue doesn't seem to have any effect. So, what wonderfully idiosyncratic
> variation has Redhat come up with now?
> 
> In other words, how do I change the greeting?

One of the startup scripts overwrites /etc/issue.  I'm not at my Linux
box now, but I think it's /etc/rc.d/rc.local - you need to edit that
value.

Dave


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