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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Forcing actions at login
Message-ID: <18898@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 13 Jan 91 20:18:52 GMT
References: <6153@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <446@minya.UUCP> <1991Jan10.191546.268@am.sublink.org>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <1991Jan10.191546.268@am.sublink.org> alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:
>Just kludge up a way to disable motd-checking - simplest scheme I can
>think of, offhand, is to add something like:
>	egrep "^$LOGNAME:.*NOMOTD" /etc/passwd >/dev/null && exit
>just before the cat /etc/motd in /etc/profile, then add the NOMOTD
>keyword somewhere in the /etc/passwd line of the pseudo-user (e.g. in
>the gcos field, or just use it as a part of the filename of the pseudo
>shell script for the pseudo-user).

If you are going to "Just kludge up a way" you might as well use the
way that exists already.

	if [ ! -f $HOME/.hushlogin ]; then
		cat /etc/motd
	fi

This is how BSD login handles the problem.
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