From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 12 18:54:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA06097 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 18:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr03.primenet.com (tlambert@usr03.primenet.com [206.165.6.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA06084 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 18:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr03.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr03.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09040; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 18:53:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199710130153.SAA09040@usr03.primenet.com> Subject: Re: fnord0: disabled, not probed. To: hoek@hwcn.org (Tim Vanderhoek) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:53:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hoek@hwcn.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tim Vanderhoek" at Oct 12, 97 09:31:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I think "Little Johnny" will be more interested in a login prompt than > > if his probe messages say "disabled" or whatever... > > Great! So we agree then that it is more important to show Johnny > messages which will impair his ability to login than to show him > (relatively) meaningless "disabled" messages. :) If he's going to ignore "disbled" messages in favor of "login", then all he cares about is "login:". That means he can get any number of messsages prior to "login:", and it won't matter. This argues *for* "disabled" messages (they will be ingnored anyway). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.