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Recently--while trying to track down a strange problem with an on-line
policy program I got from the net, then later when setting up BSD
quotas--I discovered a behaviour from the toolchest that I can only call
a bug.

The problem has to do with messages that are supposed to be delivered to
the user at *login* time (not when *each* shell is started, just the
*first* shell).  The bug is that when the toolchest is invoked it seems
to *eat* any output from the login process (xdm in the case of IRIX
4.0.5).  This means that the message about quota violation is *never*
seen by anyone logging in to the console; only when the user logs in
over the network (or from a character-based terminal, if one was
attached).

I have RTFM about X, xdm, etc., and find no indication of how to get
these login messages to be presented to the user.
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession claims that all messages from xdm and
toolchest will be routed to the console, but this does not appear to
work as claimed.

Can anyone at SGI who is familiar with the SGI X software tell me how I
go about getting "at login time" messages displayed under X/pandora/xdm?
Please direct your reply to me via email (as well as the net, if you
like).