/etc/issue choking uucp logins

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <4927 at gaboon.UUCP>, asv at gaboon.UUCP (Stan Voket) writes:
>      I have a full screen /etc/issue that I'd like to display on unused
>      terminals to clear a previous user's work for security and neatness.
>      However, a full screen of anything is not what another machine likes or
>      needs when trying to login for a uucp transfer.  It has caused remote
>      logins to fail.  How can I display my large /etc/issue for local
>      terminals but not on dialup lines?

Why not just use 40 or so return's which will clear most screens and will
not be so big as to fill up buffers of other systems trying to login.
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