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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Forcing actions at login
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.233758.27170@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Jan 91 23:37:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.191546.268@am.sublink.org> <1991Jan13.231048.25341@NCoast.ORG> <1991@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast)
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As quoted from <1991@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au> by boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts):
+---------------
| In article <1991Jan13.231048.25341@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
| >if test ! -f $HOME/.hushlogin; then
| >    if newer-than /etc/motd $HOME/.enoughalready; then
| >	cat /etc/motd
| >	touch $HOME/.enoughalready
| >    fi
| >fi
| 
| But Brandon, where's the test on:
|     "$HOME/.i-really-don't-want-to-see-the-motd-ever!"
+---------------

Xenix, remember.  In any case, that's .hushlogin.  ;-)

.enoughalready was added after the owner of ncoast put a 3-page ad in
/etc/motd and everyone had to read it every time they logged in for a week.
It was actually a quick hack; I added "newer-than" afterward.

BTW, there *is* a bug in the above: I didn't test for the existence of
.enoughalready, so it spits out a spurious error message the first time anyone
logs in.  The actual code in use here is a bit more bizarre, as there are
*three* /etc/motd files (/etc/motd, /etc/motd.real, /etc/motd.motd; don't
ask me why Rich did this) with different levels of blocking for them.

++Brandon
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