Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:10:30 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> To: Edwin Rudolph <stu12915@westga.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Console messages and Telnet login message Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.03.9909291802101.38960-100000@dakota.gate.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9909291329450.29828-100000@westga.edu>
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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Edwin Rudolph wrote: % % Two questions: % % 1: % What controls all the messages that are displayed on the console (i.e., % root login, failed logins, etc.) and is there a way to redirect that % somewhere or turn it off?? 1. syslogd 2. /etc/syslog.conf % % 2: % I've installed FreeBSD a few times on my machine at home and sometimes % telnet to it from my laptop, or even telnet locally and have never seen % this before--when it gives me a login prompt, I don't see the usual % % FreeBSD/i386 (ttyp0) % % login: % % but something like this: % % / (ttyp0) % One possible option could be that it was turned of via /etc/inetd.conf. See example below: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/tcpd telnetd -h - Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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