Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:26:52 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <duiker@haggis.nl> To: "BSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Customizing /etc/motd Message-ID: <015a01c2d363$91f327d0$1500000a@scrk.com> In-Reply-To: <200302131509.39597.will@unfoldings.net>
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+> motd is a flat file, so it won't take the customizations +> you'd need to do this :) Yes indeed, I was aware of this - hence my puzzlement as to how this might be done. +> The last login is done by lastlog, which is called by login, +> not from motd. <nodding sagely> Hmmmmmmmm................ +> For infor on both, check the motd(5) and utmp(5) man pages. AHA!!! Until now, I didn't realize motd had a man page. Thanks much for the info. After reading, I'm no wiser tho'...unless you count the knowledge that the man page exists which was previously unknown to me!! :-) Regards, -Colin Who is still grapping with this issue with "grim resolve" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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