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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: turning off A/UX welcome message (how)???
Message-ID: <37262@cup.portal.com>
Date: 26 Dec 90 23:29:36 GMT
References: <768@nih-csl.nih.gov>
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jmurphy@helix.nih.gov (Joe Murphy) in <768@nih-csl.nih.gov> writes:

	Does anybody know how to kill the A/UX welcome message:

	*************...
	*
	*     W E L C O M E   T O   A / U X   ...
	*
	*************...

	that you get when you login? Or how to change it??? Could not find
	a reference in the manuals.

Simple!  Just do:

	$ su
	# cd /etc
	# > motd

Two other things (assuming you're using A/UX 2.*):

1. /etc/issue now works correctly with /bin/login.    You put your REAL system
   greeting or herald in /etc/issue, as many lines of text as you'd like.

   The /etc/motd is "supposed" to be ONLY for the message-of-the-day, such as
   would be used to alert of impending downtime or other events

2. You may wish to alter /etc/gettydefs so each entry simply has (in the next-
   to-last "field") the string "Please login: " instead of all the other
   excess verbiage preceeding the "login" prompt.

3. (Yeah, I can't count! :-) you may also wish to avail yourself of the dialup
   password capability, an undocumented (by AT&T) option for /bin/login

   This works fine (with A/UX 2.0) and I posted references to the sources of
   the dialup password management program several months ago; I installed it
   on my system since most my access is NOT via the main "console" because I
   can't tolerate the screen glare of the "stock" Apple color monitor (Mac II).
   If there's interest, I can repost it (requires YOU to uucp a file from the
   osu-cis (aka cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu [IP 128.146.8.62]) archive site.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]