From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 15: 0:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snarf.osdn.com (snarf.osdn.com [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A1537B401 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:00:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (postfix@guinness.osdn.com [209.192.217.152]) by snarf.osdn.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1LN0Qs17312; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:00:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jim@guinness.osdn.com) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FE3C1923; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:00:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:00:19 -0500 From: Jim Mock To: Klaus Steden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/issue ? Message-ID: <20010221180018.A36520@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: mij@osdn.com References: <20010221175607.V610@cthulu.compt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010221175607.V610@cthulu.compt.com>; from klaus@compt.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:56:08PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 at 17:56:08 -0500, Klaus Steden wrote: > Hi there, > > Is there any sane/simple way (without having to hack source) to change the > greeting presented by 'telnet' from this: > > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > > FreeBSD/i386 (xxxx.yyyy.zzzz) (ttyp9) > > login: > > ... to something a little less obvious like ... > > xxxx.yyyy.zzzz (ttyp9) > > that? > > I know on Linux you could modify this output through /etc/issue and > /etc/issue.net. How does FreeBSD do it? man gettytab - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message