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From: tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: /etc/issue choking uucp logins
Summary: uugetty?
Keywords: /etc/issue getty uucp
Message-ID: <217@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 18:27:29 GMT
References: <4927@gaboon.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska
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In article <4927@gaboon.UUCP>, asv@gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes:
> 
>      I have a full screen /etc/issue that I'd like to display on unused
>      terminals to clear a previous user's work for security and neatness.
>      However, a full screen of anything is not what another machine likes or
>      needs when trying to login for a uucp transfer.  It has caused remote
>      logins to fail.  How can I display my large /etc/issue for local
>      terminals but not on dialup lines?
> 

Use uugetty.  It doesn't use the issue file at all.  Works for me.

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