Re: More fixes to pmconsole

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 22:58:52 -0600 (MDT)

That would be VERY useful. Also a variable which would display the
device's hostname. I had to run a script to set the login message on each
port while incrementing counters.

On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Steven P. Crain wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:
>
> > Id like to be able to type in a MESSAGE or PROMPT in PMCONSOLE and have it
> > set for all the ports.
>
> It would be nice also if pmconsole was smart when doing this, for
> example, setting the message to: "Welcome to my.net port %p" would
> expand the %p differently for each port. That is handy when a customer
> calls in to say that they had problems that happen to be caused by the
> ISP's modem. We can ask, "Did the connect message say which port you
> were on? Good, we will check that modem. Thankyou."