Re: How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-22 Thread shaul 
You have to touch .hushlogin.

[04:43:35 shaul]$ man login

LOGIN(1) LOGIN(1)

NAME
   login - Begin session on the system

SYNOPSIS
   login [username [environmental-variables]]

DESCRIPTION
   login  is used to establish a new session with the system.

. . .

   for more information.

   After a successful login, you will be informed of any sys­
   tem messages and the presence of mail.  You may  turn  off
   the  printing  of  the  system message file, /etc/motd, by
   creating a  zero-length  file  .hushlogin  in  your  login
   directory.   The mail message will be one of "You have new

> This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
> at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
> software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah,
> blah that appears directly after login.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
>

Re: How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-20 Thread dsb3 
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Selim Issever wrote:

>Why dont you just edit /etc/motd?
>
>Selim
>
>Sean Johnson wrote:
>> 
>> This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
>> at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
>> software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah,
>> blah that appears directly after login.  Any ideas would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>> 

you have to both edit /etc/motd to remove the text, plus edit the boot
files to remove the first line (which is the output of `uname -a`.

Take a look at /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh for the last few lines ...

-dave


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Re: How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-20 Thread Selim Issever 
Why dont you just edit /etc/motd?

Selim

Sean Johnson wrote:
> 
> This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
> at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
> software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah,
> blah that appears directly after login.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Sean
> 
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How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-20 Thread Sean Johnson 
This certainly isn't a serious problem, but I've been a little perplexed
at not being able to get rid of the little blurb about Debian/GNU
software not being responsible for your machine blowing up, blah, blah,
blah that appears directly after login.  Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated.

Sean