On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Ronald Warner wrote:
> what do i do to "rotate" the messages (in /etc/motd) displayed on
> the users terminal? can it be done automatically? or do I have to
> create a script? I would like to display a different message for
> each user.
I strongly recommend not making /etc/motd your random quote file. Use
/etc/motd for your server specific messages that you want your users to
know about.
Modifying /etc/profile, or /etc/csh.* to add your random quote mechanism
is a better strategy.
For one-time messages, the news command is useful to integrate into your
system wide login scripts.
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