From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 12:21:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.omn.net (atlantis.omn.net [212.158.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64ED537B6A1 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@enets.co.uk) Received: from enets.co.uk (sabre3.sja.co.uk [212.158.68.7]) by mail.omn.net (8.10.1/8.10.1/Omnitech-2.0.0) with ESMTP id e6AKNVc27758; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:23:31 GMT Message-ID: <396A21F2.A8210712@enets.co.uk> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:20:18 +0100 From: Steve Abraham Reply-To: steve@enets.co.uk Organization: eNets Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: issue / issue.net References: <3969D91C.C4B3BCF9@enets.co.uk> <20000710092846.A16340@dan.emsphone.com> <3969EDF3.88CB1BB@enets.co.uk> <20000710135454.A28202@dan.emsphone.com> <396A1C71.109CD9AA@enets.co.uk> <20000710141006.A22223@dan.emsphone.com> <396A2061.C4A3DEFD@enets.co.uk> <20000710141618.B22223@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jul 10), Steve Abraham said: > > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > I'm stumped then :) Have you been testing by telnetting to localhost > > > or logging in via the console? If you have only been trying one way, > > > try the other. The banner is printed by getty for consoles, and > > > telnetd for telnet logins. Maybe there's a bug in one or the other. > > > > Both telnetting from the outside world, and telnetting from the console > > result in... > > > > FreeBSD/i386 (XXX) (ttyp1) > > > > login: > > > > ... even though I have a message in the issue file. > > > > I must be doing something daft, but I can't think what it is. > > I don't mean telnet from an existing console login; I mean hit > alt-(F1-12) and log in from an open vty. Ah ha! OK, it works at the console, so it seems that it's just telnetd that doesn't display it... S. --- Steve Abraham eNets Ltd UK steve (at) enets.co.uk http://www.eNets.ltd.uk T: +44 (0)1463 861311 F: +44 (0)8702 840220 M: +44 (0)7770 332765 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message