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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:04:18 +0700 (JAVT)
From:      zulkarnain <zul@unsyiah.ac.id>
To:        "Mark A. Hummel" <mhumm@ispchannel.com>
Cc:        David Fuchs <dfuchs@uniserve.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /etc/issue, gettytab, and ttys
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10008061801570.16354-100000@pinto.unsyiah.ac.id>
In-Reply-To: <398D3F35.8E02AE8F@ispchannel.com>

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Hi,

Somebody have wrote how to create pre-login text, but I've follow that
instruction and didn't work.May be you can chek this url:
http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/

best regards,
zul

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Mark A. Hummel wrote:

> David,
> 
> I'm a newbie so brace yourself.  I may be way off base here, but I recently
> installed a splash screen on my BSD system.  I realize it's not a critical
> system feature, but why couldn't you use it to "splash" your pre-login messages
> to the screen?  Don't ask me how (but it shouldn't be that tough), it was just a
> thought.
> 
> Mark
> 
> David Fuchs wrote:
> 
> > I've recently compiled and installed the sources for 4.1-Stable.  I used to
> > run 4.0-Stable.  The upgrade went fine and I had no trouble rebuilding /etc,
> > /var, and /usr, but I've noticed some odd things happening.
> >
> > I'd like to have a login message (/etc/issue in Linux) appear *before* the
> > login prompt, but the only way I've been able to do this is with the "im"
> > and "if" options in /etc/gettytab.  The problem is that editing the gettytab
> > file used to work (when I was running 4.0), but now it doesn't function the
> > same and my users don't see a message before they log in.  I would very much
> > like to have a login message on pseudo-terminals when someone logs in
> > remotely.  Not that it doesn't work at all, it still works for console and
> > serial connections, but not remote connections (anymore).
> >
> > Second, before I did a CVSup to 4.1 and rebuilt the world, I was only able
> > to log in at 9600 baud over a serial connection, but since the update, I
> > can't connect at 9600 anymore.  Amazingly, I can now only connect at 115200
> > which was previously impossible.  I'm not complaining about this one, but I
> > haven't been able to find any information on the -current mailing list or
> > anywhere else regarding this... have there been some changes?  Why can I not
> > connect at 9600 anymore?  All I receive when I create a 9600 baud connection
> > are funny characters and symbols.
> >
> > Any help with either of these problems would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > -David Fuchs
> >
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