From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 15:01:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA12330 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA12303 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 15:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA12978 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:01:06 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id AAA05250 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 00:00:41 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Beta.4/keltia-uucp-2.9) id XAA02192; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:57:16 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199609212157.XAA02192@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 23:57:16 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/issue In-Reply-To: <199609211658.SAA22796@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>; from Christoph Kukulies on Sep 21, 1996 18:58:08 +0200 References: <199609211658.SAA22796@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.43g Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2490 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Christoph Kukulies: > Is this an issue? Should FreeBSD have such a file? Or is there an > equivalent? No. Yes IMO and No. I have patches to implement an "if=/etc/issue" keyword in /etc/gettydefs for getty. They may have to be adjusted to the termios-ified getty we now have. I never committed them because each time I raised this issue (:-)) no one seemed interested... If there are really some people interested, I'll merge my old changes into the new getty. The patches were made in 1993 for 386BSD... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #0: Sat Sep 21 00:18:27 MET DST 1996