jmurphy@helix.nih.gov (Joe Murphy) (12/27/90)
Does anybody know how to kill the A/UX welcome message: ******************************************************************************* * * * W E L C O M E T O A / U X * * * ******************************************************************************* that you get when you login? Or how to change it??? Could not find a reference in the manuals. Thanks in advance. -- Joe Murphy National Institutes of Health, Division of Computer Research and Technology Personnel Computing Branch, Macintosh Support Group Internet: jmurphy@helix.nih.gov, Bitnet: hal%nihdcrt
mwb@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Mike Braden) (12/27/90)
In article <768@nih-csl.nih.gov> jmurphy@helix.nih.gov (Joe Murphy) writes: >Does anybody know how to kill the A/UX welcome message: > >******************************************************************************* >* * >* W E L C O M E T O A / U X * >* * >******************************************************************************* > > >that you get when you login? Or how to change it??? Could not find >a reference in the manuals. I think this message is contained in a file called motd. It stands for message of the day. It is printed every time a user logs in. I don't remember where it is located, but you can find it with the Find File DA. Hope this helps. Mike.
andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman) (12/27/90)
In article <768@nih-csl.nih.gov> jmurphy@helix.nih.gov (Joe Murphy) writes: >Does anybody know how to kill the A/UX welcome message: >that you get when you login? Or how to change it??? Could not find >a reference in the manuals. The text is in the file /etc/motd (as in "message of the day"). You can change it to whatever you want. That's one of the first things I did when I got the system running. This file is printed from the /etc/profile or /etc/cshrc file when you log in. You could also remove the line from those files, although they should probably be left alone. -- Andy Peterman | Opinions expressed treehouse!andyp@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com | are definitely those of (916) 273-4569 | my employer!
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (12/27/90)
jmurphy@helix.nih.gov (Joe Murphy) in <768@nih-csl.nih.gov> writes:
Does anybody know how to kill the A/UX welcome message:
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that you get when you login? Or how to change it??? Could not find
a reference in the manuals.
Simple! Just do:
$ su
# cd /etc
# > motd
Two other things (assuming you're using A/UX 2.*):
1. /etc/issue now works correctly with /bin/login. You put your REAL system
greeting or herald in /etc/issue, as many lines of text as you'd like.
The /etc/motd is "supposed" to be ONLY for the message-of-the-day, such as
would be used to alert of impending downtime or other events
2. You may wish to alter /etc/gettydefs so each entry simply has (in the next-
to-last "field") the string "Please login: " instead of all the other
excess verbiage preceeding the "login" prompt.
3. (Yeah, I can't count! :-) you may also wish to avail yourself of the dialup
password capability, an undocumented (by AT&T) option for /bin/login
This works fine (with A/UX 2.0) and I posted references to the sources of
the dialup password management program several months ago; I installed it
on my system since most my access is NOT via the main "console" because I
can't tolerate the screen glare of the "stock" Apple color monitor (Mac II).
If there's interest, I can repost it (requires YOU to uucp a file from the
osu-cis (aka cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu [IP 128.146.8.62]) archive site.
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (12/28/90)
I haven't tested this on A/UX, but most BSD systems also let you create a file called ~/.hushlogin. If it exists in your home directory, you do not see the message of the day. Typically used for UUCP accounts and for people who want less noise. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett