which file stores the shutdown message?

[WilliamWallace]

which file could i edit to change the traditional shutdown message to something more personal? Ex.
original:

#shutdown -r now

the system will shutdown now...

-------to-------
#shutdown -r now

this linux system will self destruct in __ seconds.

??????

[klamath]

I believe you'd have to hack the sources for shutdown. Shouldn't be too hard. On my Debian system, '/sbin/shutdown' is part of the sysvinit package. Just get a copy of the source, grep through it for the printf() or similar line which displays the message, and change the text.

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[WilliamWallace]

so i would do this?
cat sourcecode.file | grep printf shutdown message

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