How to script /etc/issue?

Question

I would like to pipe my tty number through figlet (ASCII generator) for the /etc/issue (message shown before login). Obviously this means I can't just update it from /etc/rc.local.

On my system (Arch), agetty is responsible for parsing the file.

Answer 1

I'm sure there's a cleaner way to do this, but one solution would be to run your figlet command and redirect the output into /etc/issue.tty{1-11}, effectively hard-coding the figlet output for each tty.

Answer 2

This reminds me of the linuxlogo package. Check it out like this:

$ apt-cache search linuxlogo
linuxlogo - Color ANSI System Logo

$ sudo apt-get install linuxlogo
...

$ linuxlogo -L list