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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Forcing actions at login
Message-ID: <1991Jan05.212116.2157@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 21:21:16 GMT
References: <6153@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <6153@ecs.soton.ac.uk> tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown) writes:
>I would like to know the neatest way of forcing certain actions to
>be taken when a user logs in to the system.  For example, I would
>like to ensure everyone sees the global message of the day, or 
>perhaps get reniced if they're not a priority user on machine X.
>
>Is the recommended way to simply put the name of a script in the
>passwd file instead of /bin/csh (or whatever)?  I can't see any
>other alternative as the user has to own .login, but are there
>any ill side-effects from this action?


To my knowledge, /etc/cshrc is sourced by all occurences of csh.

 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr@jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341