Re: hushlogin

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From: Stephen Potter
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 21:23

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In article <1992Aug27.214859.8408@das.harvard.edu>, adam@calliope.uucp (Adam Shostack) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug27.200330.24859@news.duc.auburn.edu> hendefd@woof.duc.auburn.edu writes:
|> >What is a .hushlogin file and why does my system have an empty 
|> >one in /usr/spool/uucppublic?
|> 

Here's an interesting little hack that one of our consultants here at UF came up with.  This is nice for those of us that have to use public workstations, and have to log on and off a lot, or for windowing environments.

# Show motd only if it has changed
cmp -s ~/.hushlogin /etc/motd
if ($status != 0) then
  tee ~/.hushlogin < /etc/motd | more
endif

Steve

-- 
"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning.  The sea's asleep, and
the rivers dream.  People made of smoke and cities made of sound.  Somewhere
there's danger.  Somewhere there's injustice.  Somewhere else the tea's getting 
cold. 	Come on Ace, we've got work to do." -Dr Who, spp@reef.cis.ufl.edu

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