Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Greg Bur
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Richard,> Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program,> which is used for console logins.  You should still be able to use the> color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes.  But > the substitution stu

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Penguin Lover Richard Fish squawked: > The current time will be difficult. But you could create a file (like > /etc/issue.ssh) with the rest of the information in it: > > echo "This is `hostname`.`hostname -d` ( `uname -s` `uname -m` `uname > -r` )" > /et

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program, > > which is used for console logins. You should still be able to use the > > color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes. But > > the s

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi Richard, > Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program, > which is used for console logins. You should still be able to use the > color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes. But > the substitution stuff is getty specific, and will not work with ssh.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Richard Fish
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After having enabled the file in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file with > > Banner /etc/issue > > file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. > However i'm not seeing the effective system name, kernel etc but onl

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:44:19PM +0100, Penguin Lover Marco Calviani squawked: > file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. > However i'm not seeing the effective system name, kernel etc but only > this: > > This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t > > Password: > > it

[gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, using this page of the gentoo wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Console_Prompt i'm trying to use the /etc/issue file. After having enabled the file in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file with Banner /etc/issue file i've observed that effectively the system shows the "welcome" string. However