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Re: 2 simple questions



On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 10:54:48AM -0800, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> 
>     Hi Brad,
> 
> Looks like you just need/want to edit the Message Of The Day (/etc/motd)
> file.

actually sounds more like /etc/issue  /etc/motd does not have any
reference to stable/unstable that i can see.  

> Don't run gnome here - sri.
> 
> On Friday 16 February 2001 06:54, Brad Cramer wrote:
> > I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent
> > Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple questions. I am running Debian
> > Woody and everything is up to date but I want to know how to change the
> > type of system or version of Debian that shows up on a console login
> > screen. Right now it says testing/unstable I looked at /etc/debian_version
> > and it said the same thing there and I changed it to Woody but that didn't
> > make any difference, any ideas? The other question may be a little more
> > complicated. I am using gdm to login and I normaly run Enlightenment but I
> > wanted to try out Gnome but when I selecect it from the gdm menu it starts
> > gnome and kde together. I have replaced the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome script
> > with one that just has exec /usr/bin/gnome-session but that didn't help, if
> > I start kde it works fine and it is a script that just has exec
> > /usr/bin/startkde, any ideas on this one?
> > Thanks
> > Brad Cramer
> 
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> 
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