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Date:      Mon, 7 Aug 1995 01:44:05 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <w@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-libexec@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/getty gettytab.5 main.c 
Message-ID:  <199508062344.BAA07154@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199508011540.IAA00980@precipice.shockwave.com>
References:  <199508011312.GAA23553@freefall.cdrom.com> <199508011540.IAA00980@precipice.shockwave.com>

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Paul Traina writes:
>This is pretty bogus (IMO).  This is absolutely positivel NOT the sort of
>information you want to present to a user before they've logged in.

You know this famous program called 'sendmail'? 

$ telnet localhost smtp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220-localhost Sendmail 8.6.9/8.6.9 ready at Mon, 7 Aug 1995 01:39:45 +0200
                       ^^^^^^^^^^^Version                            ^^^TZ/country/law
220 ESMTP spoken here
    ^^^protocol

Wolfram



>Paul
>
>  From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
>  Subject: cvs commit: src/libexec/getty gettytab.5 main.c
>  jkh         95/08/01 06:12:25
>  
>    Modified:    libexec/getty  gettytab.5 main.c
>    Log:
>    A useful aid..  Add support for:
>    
>    	%r:	current release
>    	%m:	machine architecture type (i386 for now)
>    	%s:	OS name (FreeBSD)
>    
>    from uname() in banner string.



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