From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 16 21:39:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04696 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:39:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dragondata.com (toasty@home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04691 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 21:39:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA02642; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 23:38:09 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199801170538.XAA02642@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: Login screen,,,,, In-Reply-To: <199801170051.TAA03465@bilver.magicnet.net> from Bill Vermillion at "Jan 16, 98 07:51:18 pm" To: bill@bilver.magicnet.net (Bill Vermillion) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 23:38:08 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > True. But I have a question. I there anything simlar to 'issue' > that is in Sys V. > > If you are not familiar with this, a file called /etc/issue is a > text file, just like /etc/motd. > > It is 'issued' before the login in prompt. On my older system I > had about 3 lines of disclaimers before the prompt - you know the > legalese stuff. That's a bit cumbersome to put in the login > string. > > -- > bill@bilver.magicnet.net | bill@bilver.com > That's a really really nice feature that sco has... If nobody else already has one, I'll try to come up with a patch to do this.. Kevin