Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 14:50:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/issue Message-ID: <199609211950.OAA14040@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199609211658.SAA22796@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 21, 96 06:58:08 pm
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> Is this an issue? Should FreeBSD have such a file? Or is there an > equivalent? > > mgetty+sendfax require such a file when mgetty fakes a login, i.e. > it sends the issue file before exec'ing /usr/bin/login. You can put a moderately long (but not a page long) message in /etc/gettytab: > telnet smyrno.sol.net. Trying 206.55.64.117 ... Connected to smyrno.sol.net. Escape character is '^]'. sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI This is a restricted access system. Unauthorized access is prohibited. For technical support or problems, please contact <service@ns.sol.net>. FreeBSD 2.0.5R UNIX (smyrno.sol.net) (ttyp2) login: ^D Connection closed by foreign host. > cat /etc/gettytab [...] default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n\r\nsol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI\r\n\r\nThis is a restricted access system. Unauthorized access is prohibited.\r\nFor technical support or problems, please contact <service@ns.sol.net>.\r\n\r\nFreeBSD 2.0.5R UNIX (%h)\r\n\r\n(%t) :sp#1200: [...] I realize that this is somewhat different from /etc/issue, but on the other hand, you can provide different initial messages for each TTY, etc. Been doing it for years... even back in SunOS 4.1 days, where I hacked the support into a few things such as telnetd. Speaking of which: telnetd uses the gettytab "default" entry for its own im=. ... JG
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