Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 06:57:52 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com> To: Christopher Michaels - SSG <ChrisMic@sbservices.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Telnet Login Greeting? Message-ID: <3646D8C0.D96D4EB3@graphnet.com> References: <29C83908FF4FD2118D2C00A0C90FCB440873E3@site2s1>
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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> -- Roman Katsnelson <-> romank@graphnet.com UNIX Engineer <-> rk.graphnet.com Graphnet, Inc. <-> www.graphnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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