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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:10:06 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Steve Abraham <steve@enets.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: issue / issue.net
Message-ID:  <20000710141006.A22223@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <396A1C71.109CD9AA@enets.co.uk>; from "Steve Abraham" on Mon Jul 10 19:56:49 GMT 2000
References:  <3969D91C.C4B3BCF9@enets.co.uk> <20000710092846.A16340@dan.emsphone.com> <3969EDF3.88CB1BB@enets.co.uk> <20000710135454.A28202@dan.emsphone.com> <396A1C71.109CD9AA@enets.co.uk>

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In the last episode (Jul 10), Steve Abraham said:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Jul 10), Steve Abraham said:
> > > I've specified the following, but it sees to ignore it and still
> > > displays nothing...
> > >
> > > default:\
> > >         :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:if=/etc/issue:
> > 
> > Hmm.  Works fine for me (on -current).  Note that there is a
> > 1024-byte limit on the if= file, or telnetd will coredump.  You can
> > probably raise the limit by editting telnetd.c, lines 130 and 131,
> > and changing the arrays from BUFSIZ (i.e. 1024) to something
> > larger.
> 
> I thought of that, but the file is as follows...
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 root   wheel       656 Jul 10 12:27 issue

I'm stumped then :)  Have you been testing by telnetting to localhost
or logging in via the console?  If you have only been trying one way,
try the other.  The banner is printed by getty for consoles, and
telnetd for telnet logins.  Maybe there's a bug in one or the other.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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