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From: forys@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Forys)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Suppressing the message of the day.
Message-ID: <1116@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 13:21:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: sigi.1116
Posted: Mon May 18 13:21:10 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 03:54:21 EDT
References: <7422@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: forys@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Forys)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Keywords: cute, :-)

In article <7422@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> Many sites have commented this out because it is a stupid time waster.
> I think the idea of a makefile is cute.

Where did you get these statistics?  Does a `strings /vmunix' on a reboot
waste *that* much time?  Perhaps invoking `make' from /etc/rc.local would
be quicker???

> Or perhaps it is useful to know when the system is rebooted.

Hmm, I've always used uptime(1) to determine when a machine is rebooted.
To assume the machine was rebooted every time /etc/motd changes is unwise.

> BTW, why not `tee .hushlogin < /etc/motd'? Who needs the cat?

A good idea, I will change my .login -- then again, `cat' *is* more cute!
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