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- From: anthony@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au (Anthony Thyssen)
- Subject: Re: WANTED: motd window when runnin
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.080113.14522@kurango.cit.gu.edu.au>
- Organization: Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
- References: <tim.711388142@appenzell> <1992Jul17.171930.24595@sequent.c>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 08:01:13 GMT
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- georged@sequent.com writes:
- | For those out there with really slow connections the file name is actually:
- | /pub/xlogin-2.01.tar.Z
-
- | In article <tim.711388142@appenzell> tim@appenzell.cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen) writes:
- | >tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson) writes:
- | >> Does anyone have a script, program, etc., that can be used when
- | >> running under xdm to display a motd window at login time? Something
- | >> that a user would have to click to remove. It should be started by
- | >> the /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xstartup script.
- | >
-
- You could also just use
-
- if [ ! -f $HOME/.hushlogin ]; then
- xmessage -name "Message of the Day" -file - -g +400+200 </etc/motd &
- fi
-
- We placed this in the xdm Xsession file before the exec to users personal
- .xsession or our default session setup file.
-
- Anthony Thyssen - (CIT, Griffith University) anthony@cit.gu.edu.au
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