Thank you sir. I knew /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net played a role, but I never saw my changes to those files appearing when I logged in nor when I sshed into the box and that is whwew I wanted to make the changes appear. 73 On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 11:04:04PM -0400, Buddy Brannan wrote: > /etc/motd > > Or the one you get at the loin prompt is > /etc/issue > and > /etc/issue.net > --