Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:48:37 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Noah <noah@oopz.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <36EAEB45.98F81B7D@aei.ca> References: <000a01be6d3a$2e397200$fbc763d8@mountianlion.oopz.com>
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> 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
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