"David A. Sinck" wrote:
> 
> \_ SMTP quoth George Toft on 8/3/2001 06:46 as having spake thusly:
> \_
> \_ Edit /etc/issue.net.  /etc/rc3.d/S99local (if present) will overwrite
> \_ issue.net, so make your changes there.
> \_
> \_ George
> \_
> \_
> \_ Dominic Busher wrote:
> \_ >
> \_ > I have two questions. First, How to a post a banner
> \_ > msg when my users telnet into my Linux box?  I tried
> \_ > putting banner = {file} in my telnet file but that did
> \_ > not work.
> 
> I believe there's a slight difference:
> 
> /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net are pre-login banner messages, /etc/motd
> is post-login banner message, IIRC.
> 
> The favorite /etc/issue.net that I built was
> 
> '             lamers need not '
> 
> with *no* return, so the prompt came out
> 
>               lamers need not login:
> 
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wow - I bet you had the lamers shaking in their boots.

Indeed MOTD is post login but I got the feeling that's what they wanted
anyway.

Craig