From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 14:30:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24940 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24930 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:30:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA254860893971776; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:29:36 +1200 (NZST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id JAA06907; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:33:46 +1200 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06457; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:20:12 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA29079; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:20:11 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:20:11 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Sergei Shayevich cc: Doug White , Brendan Kosowski , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <3548C26F.F987C22A@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Sergei Shayevich wrote: > 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. Check out the im= field in /etc/gettytab -- Jonathan Chen -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet: an empirical test of the idea that a million monkeys banging on a million keyboards can produce Shakespeare To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message