From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 11:27:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23176 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from discover.wright.edu (discover.wright.edu [130.108.128.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23164 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 11:27:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from serega@bigfoot.com) Received: from bigfoot.com (dup152091.wright.edu [130.108.152.91]) by discover.wright.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26402; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:26:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3548C26F.F987C22A@bigfoot.com> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:26:55 -0400 From: Sergei Shayevich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White CC: Brendan Kosowski , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > > 2. How can I change the MESSAGE BANNER which appears just before the > > initial login prompt. I have tried making an /etc/issue file but that > > did not work ( I have used /etc/issue on other Unix systems successfully > > ). > > It's /etc/motd on FreeBSD machines. Doug, I belive he referred to the following --------------------------- Connected to CENSORED -+- CENSORED -+- First Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic-Ultramicro-Programmer Red Hat Linux 5.0 login: ---------------------------- This screen before the "login:" prompt can be modified by editing /etc/issue on the Linux systems. FreeBSD doesn't have that feature, or at least I am not aware of it. It can however be created by modifying telnetd. Friend of mine made it work, and it does work quite nicely on my machine as well as his. Sergei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message