Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfcmgw!rdg From: rdg@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Rob Gardner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: telnet and getty questions Message-ID: <1080122@hpfcmgw.HP.COM> Date: 6 Feb 90 20:45:51 GMT References: <16390@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO Lines: 9 >2) I'd like to get getty to print the /etc/issue message to ptys when someone > attemps to telnet (and rlogin if possible) to our machines. /etc/getty doesn't run when you telnet or rlogin to a remoe machine, so you really should be saying "I'd like to get rlogind/telnetd to print..." But you can't do that, either, without hacking the source. Rob