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From: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: motd
Message-ID: <9476@conexch.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 12:34:15 GMT
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Reply-To: root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera)
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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.
>

	Andrew:

	It seems like what you really want here is /usr/bin/news.  
	Perhaps you could:

	1.  cat /dev/null > /etc/motd
	
	(This will erase the contents of the message of the day file.)

	2.  Add the following line in /etc/profile:

	news

	(This will check for unread news and display it if it exists.)

	Then, to send your users news, just put a text file in /usr/news
	with the name of your announcement.  For example, if you wanted
	to announce the capability of your system to support home
	dial-in capability, you could put the announcement in a file 
	named WORK_FORM_HOME.

	Larry Dighera

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