Suresh Ramasubramanian forced the electrons to say:
> > but he is getting the initial message, isnt he
> > "Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
> > Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586"
> > dont know who prints this though. Could the error be that of terminal
> > settings ?
>
> This is in /etc/issue - which displays. Then, the login process doesn't take
> place at all. Does it just hang there or does it close with "connection closed
> by foreign host"?
Me nitpicking again - when you telnet into a machine, the banner is not
displayed from /etc/issue, but from /etc/issue.net - a path hardcoded
into the in.telnetd server.
Binand
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