Altering Logon Prompt

[Kevin O'Gorman]

In article <3238 at pitt.UUCP> blodtoad at 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.