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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 23:01:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
To: Chris Aitken <chris@ideal.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Telnet Initial Output
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Hello:

Edit /etc/inetd.conf and change the telnetd line to read as follows:

telnet  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/libexec/telnetd    telnetd -h

You can do the same for the IPv6 version, if you use it.

Marco Radzinschi

E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com
AOL IM: CrackedBoy

Running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386
11:00PM  up 13 days, 20:50, 1 user, load averages: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Chris Aitken wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Something ive been trying to do but am not having much luck with. I want to
> be able to turn off the text that comes up when I telnet into a FreeBSD 4.3
> box. The perfect scenario for the project im working on is whenever anyone
> telnets to the box, the first line is the login prompt, not the display
> about the machine that telnetd does by default.
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>      Chris Aitken - Administration/Database Designer - IDEAL Internet
>   email: chris@ideal.net.au  phone: +61 2 4628 8888  fax: +61 2 4628 8890
>               __-----------------------------------------__
>                       # ln -s /dev/null /bin/laden
>           If you don't like my typing, all flames to /bin/laden
>
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