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From: rjh@pacinfo.net (R J Huntington)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: gpm for freebsd?
Date: 1 Apr 1996 21:09:05 GMT
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In article <4jo9ge$pcp@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>, thieule@w3eax.umd.edu propones...
>
>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.

Look at /etc/motd which I imagine stands for 'message of the day'.