From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 20:35:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00168 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:35:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00158 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA11755; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:35:05 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:35:04 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: nervous and weird , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gettytab headaches Message-ID: <19980930223504.A11245@emsphone.com> References: <3612C6AE.4C39FFE1@hempseed.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: <3612C6AE.4C39FFE1@hempseed.com>; from "nervous and weird" on Wed Sep 30 19:02:54 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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