From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 14:41:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA09866 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA09859 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 14:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA14048; Wed, 29 May 1996 21:41:18 GMT Message-Id: <199605292141.VAA14048@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA280516077; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:41:17 -0600 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 15:41:17 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: terry@lambert.org Cc: richardc@csua.berkeley.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605291734.KAA13732@phaeton.artisoft.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Wed, 29 May 1996 10:34:51 -0700 (MST)) Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Terry" == Terry Lambert 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/