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From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: issue file
Date: 24 May 1996 15:13:19 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <4o4g7v$h71@news.engr.subr.edu>,
James Benham <jbenham@scotmhs.engr.subr.edu> wrote:
> What is the file that contains the login message before the login prompt?
> In Linux it is "/etc/issue" but in FreeBSD I can't find it.

Thre is no "issue" file on FreeBSD. This is configured in the /etc/gettytab
file. I have patches to add the "/etc/issue" feature though.
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