From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 29 12:28:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF25E14D67 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.12 #4) id 10RhJl-00083n-00; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:03:25 +0100 (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 20:03:25 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Stefano Riva Cc: Jim Pazarena , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: modifying /etc/motd Message-ID: <19990329200325.A30971@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <9903282355.aa04628@dick.ccstores.com> <3.0.5.32.19990329112913.00b56260@relay.alice.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990329112913.00b56260@relay.alice.it> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefano Riva wrote: > At 23.55 28/03/99 -0800, you wrote: > >> How can I stop the limerick from being printed each time I log on? > > If you mean the copyright message and motd, put an empty ".hushlogin" > file in the home directory of the user. Also, you can change/remove the > welcome message before "login:" modifying /etc/gettytab. I think he's talking about fortune's offerings. Just delete the "fortune" command from the end of .login/.cshrc/.profile or wherever it is. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message