Tom H wrote: > Jason Heeris wrote: > > line (ttyS0) and the usual tty ones. I would like to print a message > > at the very end of the boot sequence, but before any user logs in (the > > message is a diagnostic that may affect whether the user logs in at all). > > If it's static, you can add it to "/etc/issue". Or if the process can update /etc/issue before getty can display it. The /etc/issue file could be updated many times and that should be okay. The contents are displayed when getting displays the login prompt. Meaning that when getting is started it will catch the current contents of /etc/issue at that moment. So updates need to be early in the boot cycle or getty needs to be held off until later in the boot cycle. I believe that if someone hits enter on the serial console that getty will print the current /etc/issue again. Meaning that a user could get the current value by hitting enter intentionally. But I can't recall if it does it before every login or only when it respawns after a timeout or several failed logins. Bob
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