[gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, I get configuration error -

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 18:29:56 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Dale
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. So now it has the line MOTD_FILE /etc/motd for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, I

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread David W Noon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/motd and /etc/issue just error out....

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:25:03 David W Noon wrote: 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