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From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught)
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Subject: Re: loginwindow LoginHook
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Date: 10 May 91 18:41:43 GMT
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In article <14824@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> kelley@kiwi (Kelley Wittmeyer) writes:
> has anyone ever tried to run a script via
> 
> % dwrite loginwindow LoginHook scriptfile
> 
> ?
> 
> has it worked???
> 
> kelley wittmeyer
> dept of atmospheric science
> colorado state university

Yes, it works fine. The root user must do the dwrite since loginwindow is run
by root. The default shell is sh.