From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 15 14:21:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wilsonandhorton.co.nz (fw2.wilsonandhorton.co.nz [203.99.66.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBBE037BB3B for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by wilsonandhorton.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA00965; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:21:12 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:21:12 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: David Fuchs Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gettytab & 'if' parameter Message-ID: <20000816092112.C742@jonc.ntdns.wilsonandhorton.co.n> References: <004601c006f4$add6db60$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <004601c006f4$add6db60$e5a1f4cc@office.uniserve.ca>; from dfuchs@uniserve.com on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:09:12PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:09:12PM -0700, David Fuchs wrote: > 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=/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. I vaguely recall some problem with telnetd not honouring if= in /etc/gettytab being mentioned on the lists some time ago. You may have to submit a PR about it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't worry about avoiding temptation, as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message