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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Altering Logon Prompt
Message-ID: <363@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 88 20:23:04 GMT
References: <3238@pitt.UUCP>
Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Root)
Distribution: unix-pc
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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In article <3238@pitt.UUCP> blodtoad@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (M. Anthony Kapolka III) writes:
 >In regards to the Unix PC, I'd like to change the message:
 >
 >	"Welcome to the AT&T UNIX pc"
 >
 >which precedes the logon prompt.
 >
 >Some machines use /etc/issue and read that in as a pre-login message.
 >The logon I have is not so handy.  Is the source or a modified binary
 >readily available?  Did I just miss something in the manuals?

Fortunately, yes, you missed something.  You can find the text of the message
in /etc/gettydefs.  You may be annoyed to find how many copies of it you
might need to change, just because of the strucure of that file, but that's
the place.