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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 23:20:55 -0500
From: "David M. Fogarty" <chaos@wsg.net>
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Brian Somers wrote:
> :
> : For the time being I have changed gettytab's default entry to display a
> : different string when someone telnets in.  This really isn't how I
> : wanted to do it though....
> 

> Why not ?

Because it's not neat and there should be a better way.  On the local
systems, it's something that's likely to be changed/added to/whatever
rather frequently and hacking into gettytab each time isn't really ideal
plus it lends itself to errors.

I was hoping someone might be able to tell me how to set up a variable
perhaps that referred to the file /etc/issue so that I could just add
the variable to the prompt (just like the host name or the tty) and then
only modify the file the variable refers to instead.

I think it would be a little more ideal only I have no idea how to go
about doing it.  I think it would be a useful thing for a lot of people
out there (esp. since a few people already e-mailed me requests for
forwards of any replies I might receive).

Anybody have any thoughts on this here?

Thanks!

-Dave

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