On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Georghy wrote:
try a bash script like the following :
#!/bin/sh ADRESS=`ifconfig | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | sed s/addr:// | head -n 1` echo "The IP adress is : $ADRESS." > /etc/issue
Or, if you'd rather use the iproute toolset rather than ifconfig:
ip -o -f inet addr show dev eth0 | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d/ -f1