How to change pre-login banner???

[Anthony DeBoer]

>In <1085 at pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca> tmoore at pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca (Tom Moore) writes:
>>How do I change the banner that is printed by 'getty' 
>>before a users logs in?

In article <felps.663005504 at convex.convex.com> felps at convex.com (Robert Felps) writes:
>Do a man on gettytab.
>
>$ man 5 gettytab
>
>You need to edit /etc/gettytab and change the im= field on the appropriate
>definition. The %h can be used to set the node.

The file you want may also called /etc/gettydefs (in System V).  Find the
line in /etc/inittab for the port.  It will say (in part) "/etc/getty ttyxx
label" (where label might be "9600").  Find the corresponding clause in
gettydefs and change it.

Under IBM AIX (which of course stands for "AIX Isn't uniX" :-), the relevant
file is /etc/ports.

Just thought others might be interested.  This is one of those lovely areas of
nonstandardarity between the *ix'es.  Somebody fixed one machine at our shop
so it goes "Oooh, I love it when you login:".  (BTW, note that regardless of
the system, breaking the file will most likely break the system).
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