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- From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
- Subject: Re: help for man binary
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.134006.7472@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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- References: <1992Sep9.211926.1@evax0.eng.fsu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 13:40:06 BST
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- In article <1992Sep9.211926.1@evax0.eng.fsu.edu>, super@evax0.eng.fsu.edu writes:
- .....
- -- 2) How can I put a daily announcement to every user then they are
- -- login. I may modify every users .login file, but that may be too time
- -- consuming.
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- For announcements use /etc/motd, but people will just ignore them if they are
- too longwinded or never get changed.
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- For more useful message delivery, see the manual page on news. Announcements
- in there will be seen automatically (well...) only once, but can be retrieved
- if necessary.
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- Thomas
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