I used to have a script that would update /etc/issue
with a few items such as IP address. However I setup a 16.04 server and the login screen does not update when updates are made to /etc/issue
.
Is it possible to force the login console to refresh? I used to update the issue file every minute, but I no longer see the console update when new data is written to /etc/issue
. I do see that if I hit enter, the new data will be there, but I am looking to update that automatically.
watch -d -n 60 'tail /etc/issue'
maybe (-d highlights differences if you like it, -n 60 for 60 seconds)sudo systemctl restart getty@tty1