> > Where? I looked in this dir but didn't see anything obvious. I took a look > at /libexec/rc and noticed that it calls /sbin/inetd and /sbin/syslogd > directly. It apparently will also start sendmail if the config file exists. > Wouldn't this ordinarily be the responsibility of scripts under init.d? I'm > not suggesting that it be changed -- I'm just curious about the overall > startup sequence in relation to Linux (with which I am more familiar).
I was under the assumption that this is what was desired anyways: something very similar to Debian's Linux distribution (which I am actually not familiar with) which actually ran on top of The Hurd. > One more thing. If I'd like to change the text sequence that displays just > before the login> prompt, i.e., to give users a special message, what file > contains that text? There are two: the big message is in /etc/motd, and there is additional (typically) single line message about the version, contained in /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net. --Eric.

