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Re: /etc/motd replacement?



On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a /etc/motd replacement. I want to form some sort of
> client-server approach, where a user has an invocation of the client in
> his .login file, and this client fetches the (unread) news items from the
> server. This has to be done over a few servers, with administrators
> being able to submit items via email authenticated with PGP. Anyone knows
> any implementation of something like this or close?

You can use lynx ;) Lynx can be told to retrieve a page of html from an
URL and display it. Since it's HTML it's html. All you have to do is give
the sysadmins the passwords so they can publoish on that server.

actcom uses such a menu (Lynx)...

Peter