Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:32:18 -0800 From: paul beard <pdb2@u.washington.edu> To: Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers <craigrm@coreixsystems.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motd Updating Message-ID: <3E1E30B2.8050609@u.washington.edu> References: <001401c2b915$54172550$2d01a8c0@apollo>
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Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers wrote: > > Can someone tell me he name of the .c or .h file containing code to do the > updating of MOTD, > i want to add company specific support data to the source so it can be > updated to motd on a daily basis, but do not want > it to be easily accessiably be sysadmins. > i have done it through a /etc/perodic/daily/script file, but clients can > find it i want to complile it in the source. > This is what I use. I run it from cron. #!/bin/sh cat /dev/null > /tmp/motd.tmp echo > /tmp/motd.tmp uname -a >> /tmp/motd.tmp echo >> /tmp/motd.tmp /usr/games/fortune >> /tmp/motd.tmp echo >> /tmp/motd.tmp df -k >> /tmp/motd.tmp echo >> /tmp/motd.tmp uptime >> /tmp/motd.tmp cp /tmp/motd.tmp /etc/motd -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>; 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 Faith, n: That quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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