From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 04:54:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA12667 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 04:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA12656 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 04:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id NAA13987; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 13:54:01 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (LAA01904); Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:30:01 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199608051130.LAA01904@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: How can I do an /etc/issue To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 11:30:01 +0000 (GMT) Cc: miker@cs.utexas.edu In-Reply-To: <199608050554.AAA16972@babyhuey.cs.utexas.edu> from "Hung Michael Nguyen" at Aug 5, 96 00:54:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hello, > > I want to simulate (as painlessly as possible), the /etc/issue file as used > in SysV systems (like a motd, but printed before login prompts). > I'm running 2.1 (will have 2.1.5 soon). 1) issue on SYSV is working on only serial lines (as I know) 2) You can specify a message to every terminal type, in /etc/gettytab, with the ``im'' variable, you get normally the ``FreeBSD (machinenam) (terminalline)'' So, there is no file, but messages. -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky