From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 21: 0:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E63D437B401 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 21:00:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 96FCFA809; Sun, 12 May 2002 14:00:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9575D542D; Sun, 12 May 2002 14:00:20 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 14:00:20 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: "Christopher J. Umina" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: motd questions In-Reply-To: <002801c1f981$97596480$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com> Message-ID: <20020512135725.Y52524-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Sat, 11 May 2002, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > BSD. Their motd messages were really long, so when the person logged in, > they got the message and then had to press enter to show the rest of it. > There was just like a pause in a batch file in DOS. Can I do that? I tell the system not to show me the motd and then get my shell to more the file if it has been changed since I last saw it. > Also, I'd like motd not to be shown to some users (for my sanity) such as > root and my username, is that at all possible? ave a look at PrintMotd yes in sshd_conf, the hushlogin capability in login.conf and creating an empty file called .hushlogin in you home dir. You shouldn't be logging in as root anyway ;-) Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message