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Re: /etc/motd replacement?




Please read my mail again and think if this is what I wanted. I need some
way of making EACH user see the motd items that HE didn't read yet.
That means personalized motd, calculated from last login information.
Also, I also need to devise a way to REMOVE motd items once they expire
(e.g. scheduled communication problems, scheduled power outs, etc.)

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote: 

> /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)
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Yannai.
> 
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Shachar Tal
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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)