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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!news.enteract.com!coconut!news.pixi.com!usenet 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 Organization: Pacific Information Exchange Inc Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4jpglh$kv1@rigel.pixi.com> References: <4jo9ge$pcp@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: romulus.pixi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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'.