On Wednesday 24 June 2009 01:00:13 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I started out with a hd install of Knoppix 3.3. This was excellent, > > simple to install (though getting sound a ADSL pptp was tricky at first!) > > I used that happily until I discovered apt-get updates and upgrades. The > > system has been steadily upgraded to Sid, 2.6.30 custom kerenel, KDE > > 4.2.2, etc. > > > > I have two lingering reminders of the original Knoppix: The initial > > bootup calls is Knoppix 2.78--this text is in /sbin/init. And the welcome > > message after a console login: Welcome to knoppix 3.3. I would not mind > > get rid of these, possibly placing my own text (or Debian's). > > > > Dpkg-divert is a nifty, mischevous and dangerous toy that plays all kinds > > of magic and I have zillions of entries there, mostly obselete or > > non-existant packages. I used it myself to protect nvidia's libglx.so and > > my custom startkde for a while. I see no init.dpkg-dist file or the like, > > however. > > You should clean up the obsolete diversions. Yes, I would love to. Is there some script to do this. One by one, there are simply too many of them. The normal sysvinit is probably among them though I have not found the diverted file to check it. > > > How do I get the Debian "welcomes" and init? (and should this be done?--I > > have most recent init-scripts and such) > > /sbin/init is in the sysvinit package, although Knoppix might have > diverted it. I vaguely remember that old Knoppix versions used to boot > with "init=/etc/init" added to the kernel commandline, so you may want > to check for that too. > > The welcome text is in /etc/motd, and you can change it as you please. > If you want to follow Debian's default, make /etc/motd a symlink to > /var/run/motd and create /etc/motd.tail containing only a newline > character. I have symlink /etc/modtd and /etc/motd.static. Changed it to my own message. Thanks!
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