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hi,

On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:43:32PM +0930, wulf@ping.net.au wrote:
> You may want to read the man page on motd.

motd(5) is displayed by login(1) which doesn't run at that time yet.

such a file must be read by getty(8) but i don't see any obvious way of
doing it.  that you see now is apparently printed by getty(8) itself.

looking into sources and gettytab(5) manual page, "if" capability is
what you want:

   if      str          NULL     display named file before prompt,
                                 like /etc/issue

chainging the default entry in /etc/gettytab to:

  default:\
          :ce:ck:np:im=3D\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:if=3D/etc/issue:

and populating your /etc/issue file will print it's content to the
terminals.

you might also want to remove the "im" part of the string, which is
responsible for the default behaviour:

   im      str          NULL     initial (banner) message

HTH,


regards,

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