From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 5 00:44:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id AAA21995 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 00:44:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA21956 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 00:43:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA25393; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:44:34 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.3/8.6.9) id JAA17351; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:55:26 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199612050855.JAA17351@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: message before login In-Reply-To: from Snob Art Genre at "Dec 4, 96 10:01:32 pm" To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:55:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I would like to change the message that appears before the login prompt on > my system. No one I know seems to know how this is done under FreeBSD -- > do any of you know? TIA. You can edit /etc/gettytab and put stuff you want to see before login there: # default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n FreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: > > > > Ben > > The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation > Board of Queensland, Australia. > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de