Hi Lee,
Looks like there's a Debian package called sysnews that's just what you're looking for:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/debian/pool/main/s/sysnews/
thanks a lot, thats what I'm looking for.
Out of curiosity, what do you need it for? Something that /etc/motd can't handle?
fix me, but motd is just a single file? You can not manage news with it. /etc/motd is becomming big if you write every system-news in there. Users
tend to ignore this messages. However this users ignore also system-news.
But the more attentively user gots informed at login, that there are unread news, the $HOME/.news_time keeps the read/unread status. You can split your news in different files. Users may chose what topic they are interested .... etc.
It seems there is no gentoo-ebuild. Perhaps I will try to make one, if I have the time. for now I use the .deb.
Thanks,
Sascha.
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