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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: /etc/motd - any suggestions?
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 09:49:21 +0100
- Organization: INSA Informatique (Grasp), Lyon, France
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- tom@sauveur.in-berlin.de (Th.H. v. Kamptz):
- > mknod /etc/motd p
-
- No this won't work. I see 2 reasons:
-
- 1) Never do this if you can't ensure that there will ALWAYS be a producer on
- the other side of the pipe. Otherwise you won't really log into the
- system.
- Using an appropriate entry in inittab could be a solution.
-
- 2) Named pipes generally work fine in a multi-producers, one reader
- environment. If you have 2 or more simultaneous logins reading the pipe,
- how do you guess it will work ? Each logins will get parts of your
- message.
-
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- Christophe Wolfhugel | Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
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