On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:10:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....:
>On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: [snip] >> Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and >> the greeting? If you are using PAM for authentication of logins, there is a motd parameter in /etc/pam.d/login. Its default value is /etc/motd. >Is this a console login or via ssh? > >Is sshd configured to use login, or to do all that itself? >/etc/issue doesn't show up on console logins, it is for ancient stuff >like telnet and rlogin, never for console login. I thought /etc/issue was for the *getty programs to emit a pre-login greeting/warning/whatever, and was unrelated to login. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====================================================================== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) ======================================================================
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