From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 16 23:12:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09265 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 23:12:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.8.15.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09256 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 23:12:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danny@panda.hilink.com.au) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA03963; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 18:12:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 18:12:24 +1100 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Kevin Day cc: Bill Vermillion , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Login screen,,,,, In-Reply-To: <199801170538.XAA02642@home.dragondata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > 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. > > 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.. mgetty uses /etc/issue. You can make /usr/libexec/getty use it too, if you read gettytab(5) and say :if=/etc/issue: Note that because of the flexibility of gettytab, you can define a different issue file for each class of terminal. Danny