Re: [cobalt-users] /etc/issue

["Charlie Clemmer" <cclemmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 16:33:26 +0100, R. Hamburg .: HaVa Web- & Processdesign :. 
wrote
> Looking at /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net is see stated Sun Cobalt Linux.
> 
> Since the EOL of the pizza box i consider that a security treat everything
> that read Sun Cobalt Linux to the world i want to remove that.
> 
> Changing that can be done ofcourse but at every reboot the rc.local
> overwrites those entries.
> 
> Can that be changed ?? And How ??

Near the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, there are 3 or four lines of script that 
rebuild /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net each time at startup. You can safely 
comment out those lines, and that will stop them from getting recreated each 
time. Then, I usually clean out /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net just on 
principle ... if I don't know what kind of box I'm connecting to before I 
connect to it, I probably don't belong on there anyway. ;)

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