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From: mconst@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Constant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: gpm for freebsd?
Date: 2 Apr 1996 14:50:22 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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Thieu Le NK3L <thieule@w3eax.umd.edu> wrote:
>A second question, what is the file that FreeBSD reads to display the
>login banner?  eg what you see before the login: prompt.  Under linux,
>this was /etc/issue or /etc/issue.net, but when i looked in the /etc
>directory, I couldn't find either files.

Edit the "default" entry in /etc/gettytab.  Type "man 5 gettytab" for
more information.
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            Michael Constant (mconst@soda.csua.berkeley.edu)