Philip Forst wrote: > > Anyway, I recall reading a way to either get rid of or substitute text for > everything but the "<servername> login:" part of the screen. I did not, > however, bookmark nor am I able to find the page again. In addition to what Ryan said, you should also check out the manual page for mingetty. It tells you what escape sequences you can put into the /etc/issue file.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ "Did you sleep well?" / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ "No, I made a couple of \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) mistakes." [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]