[ale] /etc/issue and /etc/motd madness

[Derek S. Ray]

Dyson, Mark         1Lt   ENEB mumbled incoherently:

> See, I had an information banner in /etc/issue that displayed prior to   
> login.  Typical government disclaimer/warning that I have to put in   
> there.  The new kernal replaced it with the default 'Welcome to Linux   
> 1.2.13' message.  I shrugged, and replaced it with the banner again.   
>  Rebooted.  Back to the default.  I checked, and /etc/motd is rewritten   
> at every boot, as well.  Superficial nosing through the (to me) obvious   
> config files turned up nothing that would be overwriting those files on   
> boot-up.  Buh?

By default, there is a pair of lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.S that overwrites
/etc/issue and /etc/motd every boot.  They're down near the end of the
file.  Comment those out and it ought to work fine.

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