From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 09:00:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9686216A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:00:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@yazzy.org) Received: from mail.yazzy.net (mail.yazzy.net [217.8.140.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 795A243D6E for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 09:00:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@yazzy.org) Received: from lapdance.yazzy.net (unknown [192.168.99.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.yazzy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABDB39832; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:01:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 08:59:31 +0000 From: Marcin Jessa To: Alex Message-Id: <20060209085931.47d3d334.lists@yazzy.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: YazzY.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.4 (GTK+ 2.8.10; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:00:43 -0000 On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:29:25 -0500 Alex wrote: > I just installed a fresh copy of freebsd 6.0. I went on to try to remove the > version number that appears before your MOTD and I had no luck. I first > tried making a COPYRIGHT file in /etc(with touch COPYRIGHT) and adding > update_motd="NO" to rc.conf and rebooted and that did nothing, update_motd="NO" is to update the /var/run/dmesg.boot afair > it still > showed up. I even went so far as to comment out the copyright statement in > login.conf and rebuilt the DB but it still showed up. I also went to > /etc/default/rc.conf and changed the default update_motd="YES" to no and > rebooted and still it kept showing up. I am at wits end here..... anyone > have any ideas? Am I missing something here? There are few ways to achieve this. One is to compile your kernel not to show any booting messages with black text and background. The other is to include a login image which can be i.e black. This way you could still see the boot msg if you press ESC during boot. You can also change your /etc/gettytab and put there something like here: http://www.yazzy.org/configs/freebsd/gettytab You can tweak the gettytab entry to show custom text, automatically login a user etc. Cheers Marcin