FreeBSD showing version number upon login

[Marcin Jessa]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 04:16:56 -0500
alex <theawel at gmail.com> wrote:

> While browsing the web trying to find out how to remove the version  
> info I did come across editing the gettytab following the follow  
> instructions
> 
> ==========Begin==========
> think what you want is to change /etc/gettytab.
> MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE EDITING /etc/gettytab
> A borked gettyab can prevent you from logging in.
> Find the line in the default:\ section that starts with the following:
> 
> :cb:ce:ck:lc
> 
> Change the text between \r\n\ \r\n\r\nr\n: to whatever text you wish  
> to appear.
> Double-check that you have the right amount of \rs and \ns and save  
> your change.
> ======End=======
> 
> this had absolutely no effect, what i am trying to remove is the line  
> that has the FreeBSD info:
> 
> [canceroftheweb:~] alex% ssh -l alex shake
> Last login: Thu Feb  9 04:09:18 2006 from 192.168.0.100
> 
> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
> 
> Welcome to Master Shake!
> 
> 4:14AM  up  3:06, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> [shake:~] alex%
> 
> 
> There has got to be an easy way to delete that line!

Put something like 
tput cl
to your ~/.login
What are you trying to accomplish?
And please stop top posting.

 
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 3:59 AM, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:29:25 -0500
> > Alex <theawel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I just installed a fresh copy of freebsd 6.0. I went on to try to  
> >> remove the
> >> version number that appears before your MOTD and I had no luck. I  
> >> first
> >> tried making a COPYRIGHT file in /etc(with touch COPYRIGHT) and  
> >> adding
> >> update_motd="NO" to rc.conf and rebooted and that did nothing,
> >
> > update_motd="NO" is to update the /var/run/dmesg.boot afair
> >
> >> it still
> >> showed up. I even went so far as to comment out the copyright  
> >> statement in
> >> login.conf and rebuilt the DB but it still showed up. I also went to
> >> /etc/default/rc.conf and changed the default update_motd="YES" to  
> >> no and
> >> rebooted and still it kept showing up. I am at wits end here.....  
> >> anyone
> >> have any ideas? Am I missing something here?
> >
> > There are few ways to achieve this.
> > One is to compile your kernel not to show any booting messages with  
> > black text and background.
> > The other is to include a login image which can be i.e black. This  
> > way you could still see the boot msg
> > if you press ESC during boot.
> > You can also change your /etc/gettytab and put there something like  
> > here:
> > http://www.yazzy.org/configs/freebsd/gettytab
> > You can tweak the gettytab entry to show custom text, automatically  
> > login a user etc.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Marcin
> 
>