Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 19:59:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/issue Message-ID: <199609211759.TAA10968@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <199609211658.SAA22796@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "21. Sep. 96 18:57:36"
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> Is this an issue? Should FreeBSD have such a file? Or is there an
> equivalent?
I think /etc/issue is SysVish.
On BSD one has /etc/gettytab where you can define such a message
for every line separately.
E.g.:
default:\
:cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\033[1;1H\033[2J\014\r\n\r\n\
Welcome to %h\r\n\r\n\
[...]
> mgetty+sendfax require such a file when mgetty fakes a login, i.e.
> it sends the issue file before exec'ing /usr/bin/login.
>
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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