From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 31 14:17:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16431 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 May 1996 14:17:03 -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 OAA16407; Fri, 31 May 1996 14:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA28402; Fri, 31 May 1996 14:16:25 -0700 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 14:16:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Terry Lambert cc: terry@lambert.org, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? In-Reply-To: <199605312104.OAA18691@phaeton.artisoft.com> 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 Fri, 31 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > One question though, is there like a way to do a system default > > > > .hushlogin since there is one for .cshrc and .login in /etc/csh.cshrc and > > > > /etc/csh.login as it'll be hard putting one in evey users directory on > > > > the system as there are over 1500 users in the database. Also, is there > > > > a way to change everyone's group numbers to 32 without doing each one > > > > manually in vipw? > > > > > > modify /etc/gettytab and don't generate an /etc/motd in /etc/rc.local. > > > > Hmmm, thanks... or can't I just let /etc/rc.local generate the motd > > as it will only show just the FreeBSD version line... > > Part of it is the login banner, part of it is the motd. > > Look at /etc/motd and compare what you see. For instance, there is no > copyright in the motd -- nad that's what you wanted to kill, initially, > according to your first mail in this thread. I actually wanted to kill everything after the login banner but my original mail in the thread was how to page motd.... Thanks anyways. Vince