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Re: /etc/motd replacement?



On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:

> P.S. - Ariel Biener, do you, at TAU, still use same old /etc/motd for
> system messages?

 Hi,

  To answer your questions, we have a Bulletin Board at TAU. This
bulleting board works in two ways:

1). A web interface that shows you a WEB motd
 
http://www.tau.ac.il/cgi-bin/bboard.cgi

2). You can subscribe to it, (via majordomo) and get the announcements
into your own mailbox, if you don't have web access, or if you want to
stay up to date with every new development and/or planned
outage/shutdown/maintenance-window etc.

The system managers can send a carefully formatted e-mail to the
majordomo, which automatically updates the bulleting board on the WEB, and
sends e-mail to all subscribers. So, actually, for me to update all the
campus on a network failure, I only need to send one mail.

The motd file is also updated, usually manually, and not that frequently,
unless there is major outage planned, or a planned upgrade or prolonged
shutdown of a server. This said, it's clear that motd is hardly ever
updated for day-to-day annoucements, and thus scarcely updated at all.

I don't really see why one would invest valuable time into creating a
client/server based MOTD, when the WEB, as in client/server (browser/httpd)
already exists and is usable, except of course for the sake of learning
client/server based services and programming.

If you need more info on how we do it, please e-mail me (private e-mail).

Best,

--Ariel
 > 
> Shachar
> 
> 

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