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Subject: .hushlogin
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 16:14:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 16:14:27 1987
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The other day I read someone's suggestion to use a "make -f .hushlogin"
in the .login file to only print out /etc/motd when its last mod time
changes.  Since no further advice regarding what .hushlogin should look
like was provided, I did a little hacking.

If I use a .hushlogin which looks like this:

.hushlogin:	/etc/motd
	cat /etc/motd
	touch .hushlogin

I get:
Make: No arguments or description file.  Stop.


I thought it might have something to do with the '.' in the
first column, so I tried:

hushlogin:      /etc/motd
        cat /etc/motd
        touch .hushlogin hushlogin

which works fine, but uses a 2nd file "hushlogin".

If I put a backslash in front of the '.' like so:

\.hushlogin:    /etc/motd
        cat /etc/motd
        touch .hushlogin 

it always cat's and touch'es.

Are there any "make" aces out there that know what's going on here?

BTW, I noticed that if you have a .hushlogin, the "You have mail"
message is also suppressed when you login, so I put the "mail"
command into my .login.

Also, even if you use "make -s -f .hushlogin" to suppress the make
chatter, make will still print out "`.hushlogin' is up to date"
when you log in and /etc/motd hasn't been changed.

I think I'll switch to someone else's suggestion and try:

cmp -s .hushlogin /etc/motd
if ($status) then
	cat	/etc/motd | tee .hushlogin
endif

then I won't have to deal with make.

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