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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!francenet.fr!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4o4jmf$a5f@sidhe.hsc.fr> References: <4o4g7v$h71@news.engr.subr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] 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. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-