Thanks Mike,

All 5 lines are commented out.

It's a mystery to me though because I even rm'd issue and issue.net and 
that line is still popping up.

...Paul




Mike Burger wrote:

>Did you comment out all 5 lines?
>
>#    echo "" > /etc/issue
>#    echo "$R" >> /etc/issue
>#    echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue
>
>#    cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net
>#    echo >> /etc/issue
>
>The third line is the line which adds the linux 2.4.9-31...the hostname 
>probably just gets popped in there.
>
>The 4th line, of course, is what copies /etc/issue to /etc/issue.net.
>
>You might need to check other init scripts to make sure that nothing else 
>is touching the issue and issue.net files.
>
>Other than that, I'm afrid I can't be of much more help, probably.
>
>On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Paul Bradshaw wrote:
>
>  
>
>>That doesn't do it.  I already had rc.local edited, and have made sure 
>>that issue and issue.net are empty.  But when I connect via telnet I get
>>
>>Linux 2.4.9-31 (hostname.domain) (14:01 on Monday, 24 June 2002)
>>login:  
>>
>>
>>Where's the Linux 2.4.9-31 and the hostname coming from?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>...Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>Mike Burger wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>edit the /etc/issue.net file.
>>>
>>>Also, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and comment out the 5 lines that echo to 
>>>/etc/issue and cp to /etc/issue.net
>>>
>>>On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Paul Bradshaw wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hello all,
>>>>
>>>>How does one get rid of the telnet identifier banner  in Redhat 7.2.  I 
>>>>looked in the man page for telnetd and it looks like I need to use '-h' 
>>>>to disable the display of host specific information, but I don't know 
>>>>where to apply that.  The way that worked in Redhat 7.1 of editing 
>>>>/etc/rc.d/rc.local to disable this display doesn't work in 7.2
>>>>
>>>>Much appreciated,
>>>>
>>>>...Paul
>>>>
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