From: Jeff Largent <jlargent@imagelinks.com>
To: Sumit <rsumit_2001@yahoo.co.in>
Cc: sinamdar@cisco.com, linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need to display a message after every reboot
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 09:26:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EB7B810.5080208@imagelinks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030506081253.63745.qmail@web8001.mail.in.yahoo.com>
motd is not displayed until after login, same with anything
you put in rc.local. If you put it in /etc/issue it will be
displayed before the login prompt, but be careful Redhat like
to overwrite /etc/issue everytime the system boots.
Jeff
Sumit wrote:
>>machine reboots. This
>>message should be displayed before the login prompt
>>comes.
>>
>>Could you all let me know, which file I need to
>>place the text message
>>in ?
>
>
> man motd
> However this will give the message on every login
> screen
>
> or you can put a message in rc.local
>
>
> -S
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-06 5:53 Need to display a message after every reboot Sarika Inamdar
2003-05-06 7:59 ` terry white
2003-05-06 8:12 ` Sumit
2003-05-06 13:26 ` Jeff Largent [this message]
2003-05-06 16:54 ` Jay Goodman
2003-05-06 19:36 ` Glynn Clements
2003-05-09 21:32 ` Tyler
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