Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:03:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960529160248.29367H-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199605292141.VAA14048@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov>
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On Wed, 29 May 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "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. Hmmm, will look at that... > 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. Yep, you do have a point there... Vince
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