Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:41:17 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: terry@lambert.org Cc: richardc@csua.berkeley.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? Message-ID: <199605292141.VAA14048@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199605291734.KAA13732@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 29 May 1996 10:34:51 -0700 (MST))
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>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes:
Terry> Soloution #2:
Terry> Use a smaller motd. Use the UNIX 'news' package
Terry> (*not* netnews) in the /etc/csh/cshrc, et al.
Or try the `msgs' system, which is part of 4.4BSD's /usr/bin. See
msgs(1) for more information.
Note that it requires users to have a msgs command in .login or
.profile, so users could suppress them. But they can suppress the
motd with a .hushlogin file anyway ... sigh.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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