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I'm using 3.2v4.2.  How do I remove the system name that appears above
the login prompt?

: I'm using 3.2v4.2.  How do I remove the system name that appears above
: the login prompt?

I suspect you might edit /etc/issue and get what you are after.

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Bill Walker

2) If you're login thru telnet, check /etc/inetd.conf
   add the -h option at the end of the telnetd line

That's for messages above the login prompt. For messages below,
check /etc/issue and /etc/motd

Use man.

Paul.

lemmen

Welcome to SCO Unix 3.2

lemmen LEMMEN OIL COMPANY
login:

front of LEMMEN OIL COMPANY but that first lemmen is still there.  How
do I get ride of that?

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lemmen

login:

There must be some way of getting rid of this.

chad

Chad Lemmen's CPU sent forth this bytestream:

| > > I'm using 3.2v4.2.  How do I remove the system name that appears above
| > > the login prompt?
| >
| > I've never tried to do this but I would start by removing /etc/systemid
| > just to see.
|
| I did this and that still doesn't get rid of the system name that
| appears above the login.  It still looks like this:

/etc/systemid will get reset when you reboot.

| lemmen
|
| login:
|
| There must be some way of getting rid of this.

Insert \f before the login prompt in the sc_m entry of /etc/gettydefs.

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o # B38400  HUPCL # B38400  CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 ECHOE #\r\nLEMMEN OIL
COMPANY\r\n\flogin: # o

The prompt looks like this:

lemmen  (This is the system name)

LEMMEN OIL COMPANY
login:

The first line with your system (node) name is hard-coded in the 3.2v4.2
getty binary.  I've successfully removed it in the past by patching the
binary.  Somewhere is a "%s\n\0" which can be defused by patching a "\0"
over the "%".  I don't have the offset any more.

Uh, let's see:

  # strings -o -2 /etc/getty | grep %.*s | grep -v '  .* .* '
    36316 %s/%s
    36540 %.9s               <--
    36552 %s                 <--
    37170 %s                 <--
    37684 %s/%s
    37764 %s/%s
    37844 %s/LTMP.%d
    38228 %s.%s
    38316 %s)
    38384 ungetty(%s)
    40192 %s/

It could only be one of the three I've tagged "<--", since the others
all introduce extra characters.  A bit more experimentation shows that
it's the one at 36540.

  # echo '\0\c' | dd bs=1 count=1 oseek=36540 of=/etc/getty

... should do it.  Protect yourself; make a copy before you patch it,
and make sure you're logged into a couple of terminals before you go
poking bytes into /etc/getty...

(Also, anyone playing with the same techniques on OSR5, be aware that
`dd` requires a new flag, "conv=notrunc", or else it will truncate the
output file at the byte you've written...)

Quote:>Bela<

Try editing /etc/default/issue

                        Jesse Barker

: >

: > >
: > > I'm using 3.2v4.2.  How do I remove the system name that appears above
: > > the login prompt?
: >
: > I've never tried to do this but I would start by removing /etc/systemid
: > just to see.

: I did this and that still doesn't get rid of the system name that
: appears above the login.  It still looks like this:

: lemmen

: login:

: There must be some way of getting rid of this.

: chad

RE: Removing system name in login.

In /etc there is a file called "issue".  Edit this file and change it to
whatever you like.

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To change the system name:

login as root and at the # prompt type    uname -S??????

where  the ?????? is the new system name.

and  then reboot the system.

hope this helps

regards mike

: To change the system name:

: login as root and at the # prompt type    uname -S??????

: where  the ?????? is the new system name.

: and  then reboot the system.

If they don't relink the kernel before rebooting, then they'll get the
old system name.  After running the uname -S ????? command, do the
following:

# cd /etc/cf.d/conf
# ./link_unix -y

This will modify the kernel so that the new name selected for the host
name will exist on all subsequent reboots.  Also remember to update
/etc/hosts and the mail configuration so that it knows the new name of
the machine.

: hope this helps

: regards mike

jerry
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