Re: Legality of warnings

[misik () alpha dcs fmph uniba sk (Andrej Misik)]

> I don't know about SunOS 4.1.3 but there is a file in SYS V Rel 4
> (Solaris 2.3 is based on this) called /etc/issue that is sent to
> the terminal before the login: prompt.  It is ususally sent to
> the console and network connections, but not necessarily sent to
> serial connections (I'm still trying to figure that one out).

        To be correct: /etc/issue is used only by getty. This is taken
        from issue(4):

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issue is an ASCII file that is read by program getty and then written
to any terminal spwned or respawned from the lines file.

FILES

        /etc/issue

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        That means you can't use /etc/issue for telnet sessions (since
        getty (actually ttymon) is used only for hard-wired terminals).

        Anyway, I'm also interested in equivalent of /etc/issue
        for in.telnetd.
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        greetings, miso.

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