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From: rocky@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Rocky Craig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: telnet and getty questions
Message-ID: <1080124@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 11:28:04 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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>> 2) I'd like 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.

Well, how about trying this:

1. Write the following shell script and call it "/etc/rlogind.issue":

	/bin/cat /etc/message
	exec /etc/rlogind

2. Change /etc/inetd.conf to invoke /etc/rlogind.issue when the rlogin
   port is hit.  inetd connects stdin and stdout of the invoked process
   to the socket, so the "cat" should work.

There are three unknowns in this solution:

a. Will inetd invoke a shell script?   Methinks it does.
b. Look at the posting time on this response.  Which implies...
c. I may have dreamed this entire conversation :-)

Rocky Craig			
Hewlett-Packard Workstation Group, Marketing Event Technical Support
rocky%hpfcmr@hplabs.hp.com

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