From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 2:29:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag1p16.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4B214E8D for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 02:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA02545; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:28:57 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:28:57 +1100 From: Jim Mock To: Noah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <19990313212856.A2499@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 at 02:13:46 -0800, Noah wrote: > I am new to freebsd, but I a machine set up now. I want to have > people to be able to telnet into my machine. This works fine. I > want to display a message before the login prompt, similiar to some > ISPs. Is there a file I need to edit? If so which one. I was told > /etc/issue, but that does not exist on my system. > Firstly, if you're going to use Outhouse Express, make sure you wrap lines at a decent length. The entire first paragraph was all on one line. Second, to answer your question, take a look at the following part of Dan Langille's FreeBSD Diary.. http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/prelogin.htm Instructions to do what you want can be found there. -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@corp.au.triax.com ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Triax Internet Services http://www.triax.com/ / \ The personal: http://www.triax.com/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message