From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 14:50:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2630D1543E for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:50:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-111-4.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.111.4]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA25153; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:49:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36EAEB45.98F81B7D@aei.ca> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:48:37 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: fr, en, zh MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Noah Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: References: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > > 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 Hi 1) You should not send messages in HTML, since many people cannot read them. 2) You should put a subject to your mail. 3) Edit /etc/gettytab for the message before the login prompt and find that line: default:\ somethingFreeBSDsomething 4) Edit /etc/motd for the message after the login prompt. Thank You -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][French piss me off! - Cartman, South Park] [The FreeBSD User Guide][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message