Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 04:16:56 -0500 From: alex <theawel@gmail.com> To: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login Message-ID: <68021BB2-7A6D-4D90-99AA-8982AC74E992@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060209085931.47d3d334.lists@yazzy.org> References: <aa8567bf0602082329u766e860dy8b7c64c04cbccb25@mail.gmail.com> <20060209085931.47d3d334.lists@yazzy.org>
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While browsing the web trying to find out how to remove the version info I did come across editing the gettytab following the follow instructions ==========Begin========== think what you want is to change /etc/gettytab. MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE EDITING /etc/gettytab A borked gettyab can prevent you from logging in. Find the line in the default:\ section that starts with the following: :cb:ce:ck:lc Change the text between \r\n\ \r\n\r\nr\n: to whatever text you wish to appear. Double-check that you have the right amount of \rs and \ns and save your change. ======End======= this had absolutely no effect, what i am trying to remove is the line that has the FreeBSD info: [canceroftheweb:~] alex% ssh -l alex shake Last login: Thu Feb 9 04:09:18 2006 from 192.168.0.100 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 Welcome to Master Shake! 4:14AM up 3:06, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 [shake:~] alex% There has got to be an easy way to delete that line! ----Alex On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:59 AM, Marcin Jessa wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:29:25 -0500 > Alex <theawel@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I just installed a fresh copy of freebsd 6.0. I went on to try to >> remove the >> version number that appears before your MOTD and I had no luck. I >> first >> tried making a COPYRIGHT file in /etc(with touch COPYRIGHT) and >> adding >> update_motd="NO" to rc.conf and rebooted and that did nothing, > > update_motd="NO" is to update the /var/run/dmesg.boot afair > >> it still >> showed up. I even went so far as to comment out the copyright >> statement in >> login.conf and rebuilt the DB but it still showed up. I also went to >> /etc/default/rc.conf and changed the default update_motd="YES" to >> no and >> rebooted and still it kept showing up. I am at wits end here..... >> anyone >> have any ideas? Am I missing something here? > > There are few ways to achieve this. > One is to compile your kernel not to show any booting messages with > black text and background. > The other is to include a login image which can be i.e black. This > way you could still see the boot msg > if you press ESC during boot. > You can also change your /etc/gettytab and put there something like > here: > http://www.yazzy.org/configs/freebsd/gettytab > You can tweak the gettytab entry to show custom text, automatically > login a user etc. > > Cheers > Marcin
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