Banners and PIDS

Dominic Busher (nainoab@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:26:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Dominic Busher" <nainoab@yahoo.com>
> Sender: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Banners and PIDS
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
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>
> 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 don't know about question #2 but I believe you're looking
for /etc/motd. It's a plain text file. I added some
lines to mine so that everything including the 2
----MOTD------------ lines is whats in my /etc/motd.

Here's what it looks like:

dan@bart: /etc [326] -> telnet bart
Trying 192.168.1.3...
Connected to bart.
Escape character is '^]'.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 bart
bart login: dan
Password:
Last login: Thu Aug 2 12:17:15 2001 from bart on pts/3
----MOTD------------

This is the motd

----MOTD------------
You have mail.

dan@bart: /home/dan

Hope this helps.

Dan