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- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: help for man binary
- Message-ID: <poqoucg@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Sep9.211926.1@evax0.eng.fsu.edu> <1992Sep10.134006.7472@cc.ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:41:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.134006.7472@cc.ic.ac.uk>, vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > For announcements use /etc/motd, but people will just ignore them if they are
- > too longwinded or never get changed.
- >
- > 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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- /etc/issue works in IRIX. It differs from /etc/motd in when it is printed.
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- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
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