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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:00:19 -0500
From:      Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com>
To:        Klaus Steden <klaus@compt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /etc/issue ?
Message-ID:  <20010221180018.A36520@guinness.osdn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010221175607.V610@cthulu.compt.com>; from klaus@compt.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 05:56:08PM -0500
References:  <20010221175607.V610@cthulu.compt.com>

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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 at 17:56:08 -0500, Klaus Steden wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Is there any sane/simple way (without having to hack source) to change the
> greeting presented by 'telnet' from this:
> 
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 (xxxx.yyyy.zzzz) (ttyp9)
> 
> login: 
> 
> ... to something a little less obvious like ...
> 
> xxxx.yyyy.zzzz (ttyp9)
> 
> that?
> 
> I know on Linux you could modify this output through /etc/issue and
> /etc/issue.net. How does FreeBSD do it?

man gettytab

- jim

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