On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Terry Collins wrote:

> > I am trying to display a message HELLO in my current terminal. How do i do
> > this by adding an entry into the /etc/inittab file? Like now when i type
> > tty, it displays my current terminal, but i want to display hello..how do i
> > do that?
> > 
> > I have triend quite a lot but i gave up so here i am in this list....
> 
> How about /etc/motd.
> Edit that and insert the message that you want.
> man motd  to find out 

Think you might want /etc/issue actually.

Andrew.

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