From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 08:01:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20900 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:01:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20883 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:00:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-fll-111.laker.net [205.245.75.11]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id KAA08957; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:59:51 -0400 Message-Id: <199809171459.KAA08957@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Kenneth Chiu" , "Roman Katsnelson" Cc: "q's" Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:59:45 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: motd rotation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In one message, which I've already deleted, I believe you indicated that you really wanted to change the motd each time someone logged in... If that's the case, how about simply creating a "fortune" database and replace the standard one with your's ?? >On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Roman Katsnelson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way to rotate different motd files? >> I mean, I could just have a bunch of different files, and have a cron >> rename a certain one motd every however-long, but is there anyway to >> automate this on startup? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Roman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message