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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Subject: Re: changing login tiff --- where is it in 3.0 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.205020.11252@menudo.uh.edu>
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- Organization: University of Houston
- References: <1992Sep6.165513.11989@ni.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:50:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep6.165513.11989@ni.umd.edu> louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A.
- Mamakos) writes:
- =>In article <1992Sep6.140740.1325@mwhhlaw.uucp> bob@mwhhlaw.com writes:
- =>>In article <1992Sep5.225655.21121@scott.skidmore.edu>
- =>>tholland@pars.skidmore.edu (Anthony Holland) writes:
- =>>>....anybody know where the loging tiff has moved to?
- =>>
- =>>/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/English.lproj/nextlogin.tiff
- =>>
- =>>But if you just want to change the hostname use
- =>>
- =>>dwrite loginwindow HostName
- =>
- =>Here's what I do; my defaults database for "root" contains:
- =>
- =>loginwindow HostName localhost
- =>loginwindow ImageFile /local/loginwindows/LOGIN.tiff
- =>
- =>"localhost" is special; the actual host name displayed is whatever
- =>the /bin/hostname program returns. Thus, you don't need a different
- =>value for every machine. Also, it is usually considered rude to
- =>modify the standard supplied files when you can just specify one of
- =>your own. That's what I did for the loginwindow tiff image.
- =>
- =>louie
-
- This is a good way to do it. "localhost" is nice when you want to change the
- name of your workstation. You only need to change it in NetInfo instead of
- everywhere you have hardcoded it.
-
- What surprises me is that noone uses the /etc/ttys file. No need to dwrite to
- the defaults database (which gets hosed every so often...)
-
- Here is our ttys file (we have our own customized login window image, MOTD
- runs when anyone logs on, and the hostname is placed in the loginwindow
- image):
-
- #
- # name getty type status comments
- #
- # If you do not want to start the window server by default, you can
- # uncomment the first entry and comment out the second.
- #
- # console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure
- #console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -HostName localhost -ImageFile
- /usr/lib/NextStep/cougarlogin.tiff -PowerOffDisabled true" NeXT
- on secure window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty
- std.9600"
- #
- console "/usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow -HostName localhost -LoginHook
- /LocalApps/MOTD -LogoutHook /usr/local/bin/LogoutHook -ImageFile
- /General/system/cougarlogin.tiff" NeXT on secure
- window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600"
- ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
- ttyb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown off secure
- ttyda "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off
- ttydb "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown off
- ttyp0 none network
- ttyp1 none network
-
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