From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 5:29: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911D137B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:29:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6636A43FBD for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from duiker@haggis.nl) Received: from zeus by smtp.hccnet.nl via fia148-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.148] with ESMTP for id h1DDT0qP019433 (8.12.5/2.00); Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:29:03 +0100 (MET) From: "Colin J. Raven" To: "BSD Questions" Subject: RE: Customizing /etc/motd Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:26:52 +0100 Message-ID: <015a01c2d363$91f327d0$1500000a@scrk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 In-Reply-To: <200302131509.39597.will@unfoldings.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +> motd is a flat file, so it won't take the customizations +> you'd need to do this :) Yes indeed, I was aware of this - hence my puzzlement as to how this might be done. +> The last login is done by lastlog, which is called by login, +> not from motd. Hmmmmmmmm................ +> For infor on both, check the motd(5) and utmp(5) man pages. AHA!!! Until now, I didn't realize motd had a man page. Thanks much for the info. After reading, I'm no wiser tho'...unless you count the knowledge that the man page exists which was previously unknown to me!! :-) Regards, -Colin Who is still grapping with this issue with "grim resolve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message