linuxlogo for Debian
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Old versions of linuxlogo have modified /etc/issue file so that the selected
logo would display at the login prompt. Since this was a policy violation
(/etc/issue belongs to another Debian package) the Debconf selection was
dropped.

Users that want to show the logo in the login files have to manually edit
configuration files for this. You have several options:

  * (Recommended) Manually /etc/inittab:

    Add '-f /etc/issue.linuxlogo' to the getty lines in /etc/inittab for each
    terminal that will display Linuxlogo at the login prompt. For an ASCII logo
    use /etc/issue.linuxlogo.ascii. The line:

	1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1

    becomes:

	1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -f /etc/issue.linuxlogo 38400 tty1

  * Edit /etc/pam.d/login

    Change the (commented) issue definition:

	# auth	required	pam_issue.so issue=/etc/issue

    to:

	auth	required	pam_issue.so issue=/etc/issue.linuxlog

    Note: In old Debian releases you can also adjust the ISSUE_FILE definition
    in /etc/login.defs

You *can not* make a symlink (or a diversion) from /etc/issue to the
/etc/issue.linuxlogo files, if you do so the /etc/init.d/linuxlogo script will
fail as it uses /etc/issue to update the linuxlogo files.

 -- Khalid El Fathi <invent@edena-fr.org>  Thu, 25 Nov 2004 22:07:39 +0100