[Gllug] Mandrakes mad penguin

[Bruce Richardson]

On 1/29/02, 5:18:31 PM, "George at College" <george.saxby at racc.ac.uk> wrote 
regarding [Gllug] Mandrakes mad penguin:


> hi,
>  well I did this once before about 2 yrs ago and that was trying to move 
that
> ugly Mandrake Boxy penguin from tty1 thro 6.
>       The graphics are in /etc/issue, so I deleted the rubbish bit in VI 
saved it
> exited from the tty and lo and behold the ugly pengy was no more. Later I
> shutdown the machine on rebooting nxt day that bloody bird is back !!!!!

Several distributions re-create /etc/issue on each start-up.  I expect 
that is what Mandrake is doing.

>       How do I get rid of it PLEASE

Stop turning off your machine.  Or edit /etc/issue the way you want it 
and set the immutable bit.  Or find the place in the start-up scripts 
where it happens and remove it.

-- 

Bruce

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