Howto show the Servers IP address at the login console I have a few test systems running as virtual guests and assign them IP Addresses from my DHCP. Ideally when I fire them up in the VM I see the console only and would like to ssh to them. I don’t see a point in login to the console first to get their IP address and the DNS Masq also sometimes doesn’t react well or the name is too long and cryptic. Easiest for me was to create a login banner (welcome screen) to show my IP Address on the console. Here we go. 1. Insert a command which will be executed at the start-up and inserts what we want into the /etc/issue file. I do this in the /etc/rc.local (because I’m a bit lazy to mess around with several separate scripts) # sudo vi /etc/rc.local insert before “touch /var/lock/subsys/local” […]