Colourise /etc/issue
Although I’ve done it a number of times, I can never remember the key sequence necessary to insert the escapes for colour-codes into vim, so here’s a note:
CTRL-V ESC
Using this, I’ve made the login to Startin’s intranet server everso slightly prettier than it was (although it could easily be imporved further I have neither the time nor inclination to do so).
^[[2J^[[f
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 \n \l
^[[0;31m #########
^[[0;31m #^[[0;0mSTARTIN^[[0;31m#^[[0;0m INTRANET SERVER
^[[0;31m #########^[[0;0m
Restricted access. If you don't know if you're allowed in, you probably aren't.