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Re: /etc/motd replacement?
There is such a system 'news' why cant you use it ?
I belive it is installed on sevral technion servers like t2 or aluph ..
news(1) User Commands news(1)
NAME
news - print news items
SYNOPSIS
news [ -a ] [ -n ] [ -s ] [ items ]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWesu
DESCRIPTION
news is used to keep the user informed of current events.
By convention, these events are described by files in the
directory /var/news.
When invoked without arguments, news prints the contents of
all current files in /var/news, most recent first, with each
preceded by an appropriate header. news stores the
``currency'' time as the modification date of a file named
.news_time in the user's home directory (the identity of
.news_time in the user's home directory (the identity of
this directory is determined by the environment variable
$HOME); only files more recent than this currency time are
considered ``current.''
OPTIONS
-a news prints all items, regardless of currency.
In this case, the stored time is not changed.
-n news reports the names of the current items
without printing their contents, and without
changing the stored time.
- s news reports how many current items exist,
without printing their names or contents, and
without changing the stored time. It is useful to
include such an invocation of news in one's .pro-
file file, or in the system's /etc/profile.
All other arguments are assumed to be specific news items
that are to be printed.
If a delete is typed during the printing of a news item,
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:
|On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
|
|> served, on the same line (how manyusers do you have ? Technion - wide ?
|> ouch). The front of the cgi would be a PHP or perl script that serves a
|
|It will be implemented at a few computers in the Technion, with a total
|user count of about 50,000 (a lot of users have a few accounts, plus
|faculty servers). There are like zillion more demands from this, so we'll
|probably write it in perl or something like that in a thin client/ thick
|server model. Thanks everybody for the help. I thought I could find
|something ready which does most of it. I promise it will be GPLed when
|it's out.
|
|P.S. - Ariel Biener, do you, at TAU, still use same old /etc/motd for
|system messages?
|
|Shachar
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