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1. Custom login prompt...

The file your talking about is /etc/issue - this file is generated by a script
and displayed when your prompted to log in.  You don;t need to go mucking
around the source code for mingetty.

/etc/rc.d/rc.local - that generates /etc/issue Here's my rc.local file.  All
I did was put a quote from a Metallica song in there, not to hard to do...

#!/bin/sh

# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
    R=$(cat /etc/redhat-release)

    arch=$(uname -m)
    a="a"
    case "_$arch" in
            _a*) a="an";;
            _i*) a="an";;
    esac

    # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot.  So, make any changes you
    # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot.
    echo "" > /etc/issue
    echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
    echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue
    echo "" >> /etc/issue
    echo "Where I lay my head is home" >> /etc/issue

    cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
    echo >> /etc/issue
fi

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