Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:28:57 +1100 From: Jim Mock <jim@corp.au.triax.com> To: Noah <noah@oopz.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <19990313212856.A2499@corp.au.triax.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com> References: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com>
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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 at 02:13:46 -0800, Noah wrote: > I am new to freebsd, but I a machine set up now. I want to have > people to be able to telnet into my machine. This works fine. I > want to display a message before the login prompt, similiar to some > ISPs. Is there a file I need to edit? If so which one. I was told > /etc/issue, but that does not exist on my system. > Firstly, if you're going to use Outhouse Express, make sure you wrap lines at a decent length. The entire first paragraph was all on one line. Second, to answer your question, take a look at the following part of Dan Langille's FreeBSD Diary.. http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/prelogin.htm Instructions to do what you want can be found there. -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@corp.au.triax.com ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Triax Internet Services http://www.triax.com/ / \ The personal: http://www.triax.com/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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