From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 8: 8:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc-ny77-30.ix.netcom.com (nyc-ny77-30.ix.netcom.com [209.109.228.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E267614D5A for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 08:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@startrekmail.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by nyc-ny77-30.ix.netcom.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA00683; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:05:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@startrekmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: nyc-ny77-30.ix.netcom.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 11:05:40 -0500 (EST) From: Spike X-Sender: spork@nyc-ny77-30.ix.netcom.com Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Noah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com> 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 Sat, 13 Mar 1999, 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. > > when I telnet into this machine I get the following: > > FreeBSD/i386 (hostname) (ttyv0) > > login: > > I want to change this to say something else before the login prompt. Please > let me know. You need to change the "im=" field in the "default" entry in /etc/gettytab. > > E-mail is better than posting if possible > > noah@oopz.com > > I also would like to remove the copyright info that is displayed after the usedr logs in. I mean not have the copyright info displayed. > > How can I do this > > Thanks > Noah Davidson > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com Finger gronimw@shell.stuy.edu for PGP public key. The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message