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Re: console message... where is it



On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 01:56:25PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
> > I have been looking for where is print a message... I mean the message
> > that is print before /etc/motd. It is that says:
> > 
> > GNU 0.2 (hurd) (console)
> > 
> > I don't know where it is and I would like to be able to change it.
> 
> daemons/getty.c (print_banner)
>  
> > Also, I've seen that it is an /etc/issue file, but it's never print.
> 
> Maybe cruft from Debian GNU/Linux. Check in which package it is.

base-files :-) The file is something like

Debian GNU/\s woody \n \l

(I don't know the internal details which make \s to be replaced by
"Linux" under Linux).

I can make an arch-specific "issue" for the Hurd different than
the current one (or just remove it) if there is need.



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