Re: hushlogin

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From: Hadmut Danisch
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 09:46

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hendefd@woof.duc.auburn.edu (Frank Henderson) writes:

>What is a .hushlogin file and why does my system have an empty 
>one in /usr/spool/uucppublic?

'man login' gives the answer: When .hushlogin exists in the
home-directory of a user, login will not print out the 
message of the day, whether new mail arrived and the time
of the last login. This is mostly used to make life easier for
nonhuman users, such as uucp.

Hadmut

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