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From: carl@CITHEX.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ALT to "Please try later"?
Message-ID: <880103150957.00l@CitHex.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 3 Jan 88 23:13:04 GMT
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 > 	Is there a way to alter the message that my users receive when I
 > SET LOGIN/INTERACTIVE=0 ?
 > 
 > 	It is easy to understand the necessity of going through the
 > login process - but the "please try later" is hard to take.  I would
 > like to be more informative.

As far as I know, there is no way to alter that message.  However, you DO
control the logical name SYS$ANNOUNCE,  which affects the message that gets
sent to a terminal BEFORE the Username: prompt.  Just put your more informative
message in a file (for example, SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT).  Then execute
the DCL command:
	$ DEFINE/SYS/EXEC SYS$ANNOUNCE "@SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT"