Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:35:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: nervous and weird <unixphreak@hempseed.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettytab headaches Message-ID: <19980930223504.A11245@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3612C6AE.4C39FFE1@hempseed.com>; from "nervous and weird" on Wed Sep 30 19:02:54 GMT 1998 References: <3612C6AE.4C39FFE1@hempseed.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 30), nervous and weird said: > I just installed 2.2.7-STABLE (i love how many more packages you have > with it btw ;P) and my gettytab file is giving me migranes. I have a > nice issue screen that covers a good 2/3 of the screen, and i was > using if=/etc/issue in my gettytab file to point to it, however when > it comes to remote connections they just see "login:" and no issue > screen. I converted the issue file into an im= statement > line-per-line and now telnetd refuses connections, however when i use > a single line im= statement instead it works. This leads me to > believe the issue screen is perhaps too large, and that there is a It looks like there is a ~800-byte limit on the welcome messgae, whether it's in the form of an im= cap or an if= issue file. There is no size checking on the code that reads the data in, so your refused logins are probably symptoms of telnetd dumping core. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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