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From: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: .hushlogin
Message-ID: <886@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 09:34:37 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.886
Posted: Thu Mar  8 09:34:37 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 10:56:26 EST
References: <257@apollo.uucp> <906@qubix.UUCP>
Reply-To: darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Darrel VanBuer)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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We have a locally written version of .hushlogin called .supressmotd which
works as follows:
  If the write date of the message of the day is older than your previous
login, you see instead the contents of the file ~/.supressmotd (mine
contains the line "No new message of the day!"
  If the write date says it's new, you see motd.
Thus, if you log in frequently, you avoid most of the redundant chatter.
If you want to find out how this was done, try "sdcrdcf!glenn"

-- 
Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD
System Development Corp.
2500 Colorado Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90406
(213)820-4111 x5449
...{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdccsu3,trw-unix}!sdcrdcf!darrelj
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