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manek@best.com (Sameer Manek) wrote:
| Does anyone know how to use the if tag for freebsd's gettytab?
| This is what the man page has to say about the if directive.
|      Name      Type              Default    Description
|      if        str               unused     display named file before prompt,
|                                             like /etc/issue
| 
| default:\
|         :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:if/etc/issue:sp#1200:
                                 ^
You need an "=" there to conform to the syntax specs.

| This is what i have now, but i've also tried 
|   if=/etc/issue
|   if /etc/issue
| 
| Unfortunately none of these work, which is leading me to suspect that the 
| 'unused' means it's not implimented. 
| 
| Sameer

Hmmmm, looking at "man gettytab" on one of my systems (a SunOS 4.1.4 box),
it doesn't have an "if" entry but it does have:

      im    str    NULL             initial (banner) message
and
      lm    str    login:           login prompt

and further on (in the man page):

     The initial message,  and  login  message,  im  and  lm  may
     include  the character sequence %h or %t to obtain the host-
     name or tty name respectively.  (%%  obtains  a  single  `%'
     character.)  The hostname is normally obtained from the sys-
     tem, but may be set by the hn table entry.  In  either  case
     it  may  be  edited with he.  The he string is a sequence of
     characters, each character that is neither `@'  nor  `#'  is
     copied  into  the  final  hostname.  A `@' in the he string,
     copies one character from the real  hostname  to  the  final
     hostname.   A `#' in the he string, skips the next character
     of the real hostname.  Surplus `@' and  `#'  characters  are
     ignored.

and the actual entry in /etc/gettytab is:

     default:\
             :ap:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:

Is there something like "lm" in FreeBSD's gettytab?  I didn't notice
a "login:" in your default entry.

Thad

In article <364c4f75$0$12761@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> wrote:
>manek@best.com (Sameer Manek) wrote:
>Hmmmm, looking at "man gettytab" on one of my systems (a SunOS 4.1.4 box),
>it doesn't have an "if" entry but it does have:
>
>      im    str    NULL             initial (banner) message
>and
>      lm    str    login:           login prompt
>
>and further on (in the man page):
>
>     The initial message,  and  login  message,  im  and  lm  may
>     include  the character sequence %h or %t to obtain the host-
>     name or tty name respectively.  (%%  obtains  a  single  `%'
>     character.)  The hostname is normally obtained from the sys-
>     tem, but may be set by the hn table entry.  In  either  case
>     it  may  be  edited with he.  The he string is a sequence of
>     characters, each character that is neither `@'  nor  `#'  is
>     copied  into  the  final  hostname.  A `@' in the he string,
>     copies one character from the real  hostname  to  the  final
>     hostname.   A `#' in the he string, skips the next character
>     of the real hostname.  Surplus `@' and  `#'  characters  are
>     ignored.
>
>and the actual entry in /etc/gettytab is:
>
>     default:\
>             :ap:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:
>
>Is there something like "lm" in FreeBSD's gettytab?  I didn't notice
>a "login:" in your default entry.
>
>Thad

I previously had this, for some reason i was thinking that the # would 
tell init to ignore that line, guess mr cpu was asleep even though
i was still awake. Once i deleted that line it was all good.

default:\
#       :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\nFreeBSD (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:
        :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:if=/etc/issue:sp#1200:

I looked at my gettytab, i don't appear to have a lm directive in there, 
looks like puts it in there by default, only defination that has the
lm directive is a 150 bps line definations.

Thanks
Sameer
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