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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:04:57 +0100
From: Mario Hoerich <lists@MHoerich.de>
To: Jarrod - Cybertek <jarrod@cybertek.co.za>
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# Jarrod - Cybertek:
> 
> Say i have a file /root/setup.client.sh, and it has this line:
> 	IFACE=ng10
> Now I want to have the motd, when it is displayed after login, to go fetch
> the current value of that IFACE, and display that value.

This probably won't get any points for style, but instead of using 
/etc/motd, you could just as well do this with a small script in your 
.zlogin/.login/whatever file. E.g.

if [ ! -e .hushlogin ]; then
    IF=`awk '/IFACE *=/ { gsub(/IFACE *= */,""); print; }' setup.client.sh`
    echo "My interface: $IF"
fi


 HTH
Mario