On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:01:41 David C. Rankin wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>       After finding some interesting information in the .bashrc tips at
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/17142.html, I adapted the welcome
> screen idea to capture useful system information on login. I have to admit,
> the colors made it pretty cool. (I'm easily amused tonight)
>[...]

Thanks for sharing this David. I gave it a try on my system at home but it 
threw a syntax error on the following line...
> echo -ne "${lightblue}Uptime for:${green} $HOSTNAME ${lightblue}is
> ${cyan}";uptime | awk /'up/ {print $3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10}'
> }

Not being familiar with awk, I played around a bit but ended up just deleting 
everything from the pipe onwards.

Very useful script though. Thanks again.

Regards,
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