From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 29 21:44:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 961E937BAFE for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:44:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@simplenet.com) Received: from simplenet.com (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA84791; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:43:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@simplenet.com) Message-ID: <390BBA0B.60E823B@simplenet.com> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:43:55 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0422 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Christopher T. Griffiths" Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: ISSUE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Christopher T. Griffiths" wrote: > > I am currently running FreeBSD 3.4 and 4.0 machines and I notice that when > I setup the following line under /etc/gettytab on 3.4 machines I get my > /etc/issue file displayed whether I login through console or telnet. > > default:\ > :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m(%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:if=/etc/issue: > sp#1200: > > On my 4.0 machines I only get my issue displayed when I login through the > console. > > Does any one know the reason for this difference in behavior between 3.4 > and 4.0 and how I can get my 4.0 machines to display my /etc/issue file > when I telnet in?? Last time I looked at this, the 3.4 system did not like having im and if in the same context. You can do everything with the issue file that you can with im, so try just doing that. Good luck, Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message