From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 16:04:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA19702 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:04:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA19475 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA10943; Wed, 29 May 1996 16:03:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:03:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Sean Kelly cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? In-Reply-To: <199605292141.VAA14048@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Sean Kelly wrote: > >>>>> "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. 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