[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue.  At first they did nothing
at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there.
So now it has the line
MOTD_FILE           /etc/motd
for instance.  But instead of displaying the file on running login as root,
I get
configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator), and
something
similar if I attempt to use /etc/issue.

Looking at /bin/login with strings(1), I find a format string that would
produce this output.

Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the
greeting?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD