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From: jba@gorm.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Welcome msg
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.192324.9717@gorm.ruc.dk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 19:23:24 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.160152.1242@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1991Jun15.123517.1@dev1a.mdcbbs.com>
Organization: Roskilde University, Denmark
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campbell@dev1a.mdcbbs.com writes:

>If you have any other sun, the only option I'm aware of is the "im" (initial
>message) banner.  There's a field in the /etc/gettytab file where you can
>specifiy the inital message which should be displayed before the login prompt.
>The default is NULL (no message to display).

It wasn't me asking in the first place, but thanks for the info.
But - in these times of networking a lot of people login using telnet and/or
rlogin. I don't know about rlogin, but appearently it won't work with telnetd.
Could one just create a small program that printed the message and exec'ed
to in.telnetd??

>For more details on this, see the man page entries for getty, gettytab, and
>ttytab.

>	-Tim
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