Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: something like motd question Message-ID: <1991May10.200910.6758@convex.com> Date: 10 May 91 20:09:10 GMT References: Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of bshaw@hcmv2.ti.com (bob shaw): :This is probably a very "basic" question . : :What I am looking for is something like /etc/motd. : :I would like to have a file that is read when a user logs in :*IF* this file has been updated since it was last read by this :user. This file would contain specific system news info, etc and :would constantly be changed by the sys_admin. One approach is to put 'make -f .hushlogin' in users' .login files, where this file contains the following: all: .hushlogin .hushlogin: /etc/motd @$${PAGER-less} /etc/motd @touch .hushlogin --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "So much mail, so little time."