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From: rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L Krawitz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Should login xterms show /etc/motd?
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Date: 21 Jul 90 01:50:28 GMT
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Funny, this issue just came up here.  My own proposal (for those who
don't like xterm -e rlogin) is

rsh -n host "xterm -display $DISPLAY -e login -p $USER </dev/null >&/dev/null&"

or something of that general flavor.