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Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 06:57:52 -0500
From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
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Hi,

Yes -- it's a cron that calls a script every minute to pick a motd at
random. Or pseudo-random, at least.

Take care,
Roman

Christopher Michaels - SSG wrote:
> 
> Ok.. stupid question.  How to you rotate the motd?  Are you crontabbing a
> shell script, or do you actually have a way to rotate the motd each time
> someone logs in?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roman Katsnelson [SMTP:romank@graphnet.com]
> > Sent: Friday, November 06, 1998 4:39 PM
> > To:   Jerry; q's
> > Subject:      Re: Telnet Login Greeting?
> >
> > Edit the /etc/motd file.
> >
> > I made a cute rotator between several ASCII-art welcome screens. People
> > LOVE cute! ;)
> >
> > Hth,
> >
> > Roman
> >
>         <snip>

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Roman Katsnelson <-> romank@graphnet.com
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