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From: pdg@ihdev.ATT.COM (Joe Isuzu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Suppressing the message of the day.
Message-ID: <1394@ihdev.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 11:00:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihdev.1394
Posted: Thu May 14 11:00:10 1987
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References: <15452@brunix.UUCP> <386@quacky.UUCP>
Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (Joe Isuzu)
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In article <386@quacky.UUCP> dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
>In article <15452@brunix.UUCP> kbb@brunix.UUCP (Karl Berry.) writes:
>>Is it possible to suppress the printing of the message of the day at
>>login? 
>This request piqued my interest. I looked to see if there was a manual
>page for motd, and there wasn't (the information was in login(5)), so
>I thought I'd write one.


Good manual page, Dave.  I thought I'd add a couple of thoughts for
those on System V.  /etc/motd is cat'ed by the /etc/profile script
generally, which is executed for login shells.  Login doesn't print
the extra junk, so there is no need for a .hushlogin (uucp just uses
uucico as its default program).  As you have no choice as to whether
or not /etc/profile is run, motd will get printed unless your sysadm
adds something like this...

if [ -r "$HOME/.hushlogin" ] ; then
:
else
	cat /etc/motd
fi

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Paul Guthrie
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