turning off A/UX welcome message (how)???
Thad P Floryan
thad at cup.portal.com
Thu Dec 27 10:29:36 AEST 1990
jmurphy at helix.nih.gov (Joe Murphy) in <768 at nih-csl.nih.gov> writes:
Does anybody know how to kill the A/UX welcome message:
*************...
*
* W E L C O M E T O A / U X ...
*
*************...
that you get when you login? Or how to change it??? Could not find
a reference in the manuals.
Simple! Just do:
$ su
# cd /etc
# > motd
Two other things (assuming you're using A/UX 2.*):
1. /etc/issue now works correctly with /bin/login. You put your REAL system
greeting or herald in /etc/issue, as many lines of text as you'd like.
The /etc/motd is "supposed" to be ONLY for the message-of-the-day, such as
would be used to alert of impending downtime or other events
2. You may wish to alter /etc/gettydefs so each entry simply has (in the next-
to-last "field") the string "Please login: " instead of all the other
excess verbiage preceeding the "login" prompt.
3. (Yeah, I can't count! :-) you may also wish to avail yourself of the dialup
password capability, an undocumented (by AT&T) option for /bin/login
This works fine (with A/UX 2.0) and I posted references to the sources of
the dialup password management program several months ago; I installed it
on my system since most my access is NOT via the main "console" because I
can't tolerate the screen glare of the "stock" Apple color monitor (Mac II).
If there's interest, I can repost it (requires YOU to uucp a file from the
osu-cis (aka cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu [IP 128.146.8.62]) archive site.
Thad Floryan [ thad at cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
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