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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:02:02 -0500
From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To: The Administrator <admin@righi.df.unibo.it>
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Subject: Re: /etc/issue ???
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On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 01:38:49PM +0000, The Administrator wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have this problem.
> If I write a banner message in /etc/issue
> it is not displayed to me before the login prompt
> loggin on my host. How come it does not work?
> thanks
> 
> Rick
> 

Humm... I thought that `/etc/issue' was a SYSV thing.
Anyway, there was a recent thread discussing a work around.
You might try searching the archives.
-- 
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.