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Re: /etc/motd replacement?



/etc/motd is printed from some script (/etc/csh.login, /etc/...., etc...,
search there for /etc/motd).
Change the lines there to whatever you want.

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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Shachar.
> 
> Shachar Tal
> -------------
> Taub Computer Center, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
> finger me for contact info or PGP key.
> 
> `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare
> at you blankly and say  "Hey, I got those with the system,  *for free*".'
>                                                          (Linus Torvalds)

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Regards,
Yannai.

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