From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 1 12:38:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23390 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 12:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA23378 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 12:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA23489; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 12:37:41 -0700 Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 12:37:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Terry Lambert cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? In-Reply-To: <199606011825.LAA22021@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > If they are xterm, then you can't set vt100 in /etc/ttys for them. > > > > > > If all the vt100's are direct connect, and all the xterms are network, > > > then it'll work. > > > > But remote connections won't work? I wonder what did CSUA do because > > it works for all different terms... > > 1) They decided to limit the choices. You have yet to put any > real limit on what you expect to be connecting to your machine > and getting the motd, or the way it's going to be connecting. > > 2) They fail; you just haven't seen it because you've always used > one of the approaches that happens to work. If you use 24/25 > line terminals, it's likely that the defaults for "more" would > work for you. If you used asn old VT52 12 line terminal, or > a large xterm or MS-Windows Telnet window, it *won't* work > for you period. > > This is why I say that what you want to do should not be done in the login > program. You are trying to use the wrong tool (motd) to solve your > problem. Yep, you're right about the 24/25 line terminals since that's what it looks like... Thanks for the help though! Vince