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From: tchrist@convex.UUCP (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: motd
Message-ID: <652@convex.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 13:52:38 GMT
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In article <664@bnlux0.bnl.gov> como@bnlux0.UUCP (Andrew Como) writes:
>	Once upon a time, someone posted a method to 
>eliminate printing the motd if it had not been changed
>since the last login.  Will someone repost it  or mail it 
>to me.

put this in ~/.hushlogin:
    all: .hushlogin
    .hushlogin: /etc/motd
	    @-cat /etc/motd
	    @-touch .hushlogin
now in .login, say "make -f ~/.hushlogin"

--tom

    Tom Christiansen              {uiucdcs,ut-sally,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                     tchrist@convex.COM
	UNIX Support, Training, and System Administration
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