Re: How to get rid of the motd
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Selim Issever wrote:
>Why dont you just edit /etc/motd?
>
>Selim
>
>Sean Johnson wrote:
>>
>> This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
>> at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
>> software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah,
>> blah that appears directly after login. Any ideas would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
you have to both edit /etc/motd to remove the text, plus edit the boot
files to remove the first line (which is the output of `uname -a`.
Take a look at /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh for the last few lines ...
-dave
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