Installing wide fonts for MOTD in Debian

[punkwalrus]

This made me so mad. Apparently, since Debian Etch, the login banner "Message of the day" is re-written after reboot. Well, that sucks. The issue is, I created some nice MOTD banners for a bunch of Debian system, but upon reboot, they had the annoying default uname -a and copyright info from the install. I was so annoyed. I generated fonts,

Comments

[stormgren]

If you want neat stuff like "you last logged in," or some random fortune, that's done in the .bash_login file (for bash).

This is where /etc/profile comes in handy, as it's mostly shell agnostic, as most shells are Bourne compatible. I can't recall off the top of my head if csh reads it, but there's always adding a lot of the same lines to the /etc/csh.* files.

Thanks for the tip!

[punkwalrus]

Also /etc/skel, but that only works for newly created accounts, not ones already made.

A final note

[punkwalrus]

Figlet is non-free, but there's a free version called TOilet

http://caca.zoy.org/toilet.html

Lot of potty humor, it uses "libcaca," Colour AsCii Art library.