Why are you even using telnet to begin with??? ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Toft" To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Banners and PIDS > Correct. The original question was "How to a post a banner > msg when my users telnet into my Linux box" - nothing to do with > logging in. Hence my answer about issue.net. > > George > > > "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: > > > > David > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >