🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <73@fai.UUCP> ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) writes:
>
>A trivial fix for system V users that don't have the
>'.hushlogin' feature.
>
>Briefly, there are cases where the message of the day will
>screw up uucp transfers.  I'm not really sure whether this
>is due to escape codes present (for standout mode, etc.) or
>due to particular groups of words in the MOTD.  On BSD systems
>at least, if you put a .hushlogin in uucp's home directory,
>you supress the message of the day, and the problem goes away.
>(The code is in login.c.)
>
>On sysV systems, (at least on ours) there is no such feature.

On sysV systems, (at least ours) there is no need for such a
feature, at least not for uucp.  As shown by the original posting
/etc/motd et. al. are handled in /etc/profile.  And /etc/profile
is executed by /bin/sh when first invoked, not by login.
So uucp logging in will not get any garbage from /etc/motd
since the "shell" is /usr/lib/uucp/uucico.

Now for ordinary users to inhibit the /etc/motd garbage the changes
work OK.

	-Mike Wescott
	ncrcae!wescott