Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 14:00:20 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> To: "Christopher J. Umina" <FJU@Fritzilldo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: motd questions Message-ID: <20020512135725.Y52524-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> In-Reply-To: <002801c1f981$97596480$0301a8c0@uminafamily.com>
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On Sat, 11 May 2002, Christopher J. Umina wrote: > BSD. Their motd messages were really long, so when the person logged in, > they got the message and then had to press enter to show the rest of it. > There was just like a pause in a batch file in DOS. Can I do that? I tell the system not to show me the motd and then get my shell to more the file if it has been changed since I last saw it. > Also, I'd like motd not to be shown to some users (for my sanity) such as > root and my username, is that at all possible? ave a look at PrintMotd yes in sshd_conf, the hushlogin capability in login.conf and creating an empty file called .hushlogin in you home dir. You shouldn't be logging in as root anyway ;-) Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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