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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: System Banner Date: 2 Feb 1997 01:19:59 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5d0q3v$694@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32f29b9a.1116529@nntp.cts.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34864 pkolding@cts.com (Peter Kolding) wrote: > Which file do I have to edit to allow a system banner or information > screen to appear before the login prompt appears? (FreeBSD 2.15R) Not a file, but all logins get this from the `im' capability in gettytab(5). Unlike SysV :), you can even change it for telnet logins. For example, that's my banner message: Welcome at uriah.heep.sax.de! Current date & time: Sun Feb 2 02:18:07 MET 1997 Please login with "msg" if you wanna leave a message to the owner. login: My default gettytab entry is: default:\ :ap:fd#1000:\ :im=\r\nWelcome at %h!\r\nCurrent date & time\072 %d\r\nPlease login with "msg " if you wanna leave a message to the owner.\r\n\r\n:\ :sp#1200:ce:ck -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)