Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 13:35:54 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: motd question Message-ID: <3F4A48FA.2060108@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030825163744.GA61150@keyslapper.org> References: <20030825163744.GA61150@keyslapper.org>
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Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> Probably not possible, but I was wondering (and have for some time,
> though I can't find any info on it either way) whether /etc/motd is
> strictly a text in/text out file, or if there is a way to get it to
> execute a command, the output of which is to be included in the text
> output?
/etc/motd is a text file, and is displayed due to the following section
/etc/login.conf:
default:\
:passwd_format=md5:\
:copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\
:welcome=/etc/motd:\
FYI, most other flavors of Unix have a "cat /etc/motd" in the default shell init
files. Anyway, if you want to dynamicly generate motd, you could invoke your
program via cron or simply put something in /etc/profile which will display
whatever it is you want to see (if for all users), or in ~/.profile [ ~/.login,
~/.zlogin, etc]....
--
-Chuck
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