Re: Console boot login message

Steffen Grunewald <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.knoppix
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 10:50:26AM +0100, Christian Perle wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:46:59 +0100, David Baron wrote:
> 
> > Cites the kernel 2.4.22-xfs (that came with the distro).
> > I am not running this kernel.
> > 
> > OK, it's just text and who cares, really, but how might I change this
> > message?
> 
> vi /etc/motd

The kernel version should better go to /etc/issue (where it can be done
using a placeholder [\r], no need to adjust it to the current kernel
anymore)... /etc/motd could instead show the Knoppix version

Cheers,
 Steffen

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