From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 15:06:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05724 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05717 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11889; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:06:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Paul Wolstenholme cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnetd /etc/issue patch In-Reply-To: <199807300114.SAA29951@beaufort.sfu.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Paul Wolstenholme wrote: > Instead of mucking with gettytab, I understand there might be a patch out > there for telnetd that allows you to use the /etc/issue file to create a > banner before the login prompt. Yes, if you look at the gettytab(5) manpage you'll find the `if' capability. Replace the `im' capability with `if' and specify /etc/issue as the file and you should be off and running. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message