motd

[Tom Christiansen]

In article <664 at bnlux0.bnl.gov> como at bnlux0.UUCP (Andrew Como) writes:
>	Once upon a time, someone posted a method to 
>eliminate printing the motd if it had not been changed
>since the last login.  Will someone repost it  or mail it 
>to me.

put this in ~/.hushlogin:
    all: .hushlogin
    .hushlogin: /etc/motd
	    @-cat /etc/motd
	    @-touch .hushlogin
now in .login, say "make -f ~/.hushlogin"

--tom

    Tom Christiansen              {uiucdcs,ut-sally,sun}!convex!tchrist 
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