From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 10:59:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11605 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 10:59:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.160.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11568 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 10:59:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA10968; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 19:59:01 +0200 From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199609211759.TAA10968@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: /etc/issue In-Reply-To: <199609211658.SAA22796@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "21. Sep. 96 18:57:36" To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 19:59:01 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 -- Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> To be successful one needs friends, <<< >>> To be very successful one needs enemies. <<<