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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Suppressing the message of the day.
Message-ID: <2663@phri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 13:36:35 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.2663
Posted: Mon May 18 13:36:35 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 07:44:28 EDT
References: <1506@uwmacc.UUCP> <1100@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <611@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <611@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> get rid of your /etc/motd[...] Instead, have each user execute "msgs -f"
> utility, which shows each message only once.  This is simply done by
> putting that line into the .login or .profile file when a new user
> account is created.

	Even better, hack csh to read /usr/lib/dot-login (or whatever you
want to call it) before reading $HOME/.login like we did here.  Then you
can easily change default paths or whatever without having to tell people
to edit their .login's (many people may not even know they exist).
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016