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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .hushlogin
Message-ID: <640@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-May-87 01:14:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.640
Posted: Sun May 17 01:14:30 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 17-May-87 11:46:18 EDT
References: <7407@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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Summary: find /etc -name motd -newer .hushlogin \ -exec cat \; -a \ -exec touch .hushlogin \;

In article <7407@brl-adm.ARPA> MARSELLE%gmr.com@RELAY.CS.NET writes:
>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.
[discussion of many variations of this, leading to:]
>I think I'll switch to someone else's suggestion and try [something else.]

Here is a solution I actually used for some years with 4.2BSD:

     find /etc -name motd -newer .hushlogin \
        -a -exec cat /etc/motd \; \
        -a -exec touch .hushlogin

On the face of it this could be ineffeicient.  But since /etc turns out
to have no subdirectories (under 4.2BSD) it's actually pretty fast.
Please check the syntax since I am quoting from memory.

The real solution is:

     GET RID OF THAT /ETC/MOTD!!!  Use a sensible one-time message
     utility like "msgs" (4.xBSD) or "news" (System V).
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi