darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer) (03/08/84)
We have a locally written version of .hushlogin called .supressmotd which
works as follows:
If the write date of the message of the day is older than your previous
login, you see instead the contents of the file ~/.supressmotd (mine
contains the line "No new message of the day!"
If the write date says it's new, you see motd.
Thus, if you log in frequently, you avoid most of the redundant chatter.
If you want to find out how this was done, try "sdcrdcf!glenn"
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VANBUER@USC-ECL.ARPAchuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/08/84)
look in login(1) for a description of .hushlogin
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as a distraction; therefore I shall refuse to perceive you. - Bomb #20sheppard@parsec.UUCP (03/10/84)
#R:qubix:-90600:parsec:33700001:000:197 parsec!sheppard Mar 9 10:45:00 1984 ".hushlogin" is documented in the manual page for login, and in the 4.1c documentation it even mentions that this might be a handy thing for uucp logins. Andy Sheppard Convex Computer Corporation
evans@wivax.UUCP (Barry Evans) (03/10/84)
Re: Versions of .hushlogin...
We did something similar to that here. A person can have a .motd file
which can contain one of "never", "always", "new", or "daily". Pretty
much self explainitory, but they are very usefull.
-barry
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Wang Institute (617) 649-9731 x383msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (03/13/84)
This is not an undocumented feature. I learned about it from
some documentation (probably the csh introduction) that I read
a long time ago. Now I can't remember where I read about it.
IT is in 4.2BSD as well.
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