From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 03:39:03 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id DAA04766 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 03:39:03 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it (strider.ibe.net [194.179.130.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA04757 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 03:38:45 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA05423; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:37:13 +0100 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199510111037.LAA05423@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: Login message of the day (per say) To: 31butkiewicz@wmich.edu (-=WireHead=-) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 11:37:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "-=WireHead=-" at Oct 10, 95 08:42:02 pm Reply-To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 768 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from -=WireHead=- (Wed Oct 11 01:42:02 1995): > I was wondering if anyone knew how to set up a motd type message to the > outside of the login prompt. By this I mean when someone firts encounters > my machine i would like to display that ... Edit /etc/gettytab: # The default gettytab entry, used to set defaults for all other # entries, and in cases where getty is called with no table name ... default:\ :cb:ce:ck:fd#1000:im=YOURTEXTHERE:sp#1200: ... See man gettytab for escape sequences to insert in the "im" field. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY