From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 13: 7: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 113CB37B9EC for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfuchs@uniserve.com) Received: from ws6.office.uniserve.ca ([204.244.161.229] helo=ws6) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 13OmzA-0002cd-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:06:56 -0700 Message-ID: <004601c006f4$add6db60$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca> From: "David Fuchs" To: Subject: Gettytab & 'if' parameter Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:09:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0043_01C006BA.013E07A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0043_01C006BA.013E07A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Since I upgraded and installed the sources for 4.1-Stable (I was using = 4.0-Stable) I haven't had my pre-login message appear when someone tries = to telnet in. In the past I was able to edit my gettytab file and = include the 'if=3D/etc/issue' parameter to have a login message appear. = I've made no changes to the gettytab since the update, and the manpage = for gettytab has no helpful information. Is there any particular reason = that the 'if' parameter doesn't work? How can I get it to work again = other than by downgrading my source? It hasn't stopped working completely, it still works for local logins - = remote logins is all that's been affected. Thanx! =AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF= =AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF= =AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF -David Fuchs ------=_NextPart_000_0043_01C006BA.013E07A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Since I upgraded and installed the sources for = 4.1-Stable (I=20 was using 4.0-Stable) I haven't had my pre-login message appear when = someone=20 tries to telnet in. In the past I was able to edit my gettytab = file and=20 include the 'if=3D/etc/issue' parameter to have a login message = appear. I've=20 made no changes to the gettytab since the update, and the manpage for = gettytab=20 has no helpful information. Is there any particular reason that = the 'if'=20 parameter doesn't work? How can I get it to work again other than = by=20 downgrading my source?

It hasn't stopped working completely, it still works = for local=20 logins - remote logins is all that's been affected.

Thanx!

=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF= =AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF= =AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=AF=
-David=20 Fuchs

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