From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 06:26:26 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id GAA09934 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 06:26:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA09929 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 06:26:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13069; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 07:26:21 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199612051426.HAA13069@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: message before login To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 07:26:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Snob Art Genre" at Dec 4, 96 10:01:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I would like to change the message that appears before the login prompt on > my system. No one I know seems to know how this is done under FreeBSD -- > do any of you know? TIA. Look at /etc/gettytab. The "default" entry is usually of most interest. Set the "im" field thereof... Obviously, gettytab(5) will be of interest to you... :> --don