On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 17:11 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 01:53 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > <quote who="Mark McLoughlin"> > > > > > I the first thing worth discussing is "why?". Why is it a good idea to > > > show /etc/motd at login? > > > > It's very handy for sysadmins to display information to the user at login. > > I've used zenity and very bad gnome-session hacks for this in the past. Our > > audience of desktop systems administrators will appreciate the feature. > > What kind of information is it especially handy for? Perhaps when you > upgrade the desktop and you want to warn people that stuff has changed? > But not for stuff like "internet will be down for a while today" because > people may not actually log out that often? > > Is login the best time to show this information or would you prefer if > the user saw it immediately? > my patch listens for changes in /etc/motd, so whenever that changes, logged in users would see the message.
> Would you expect each user to see this information only once? i.e. if > you immediately logged out and back in again should you see the same > message? > that is probably a problem, to show always the same message in systems that have nothing interesting in that file. The problem is how to deal with this? -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
