2: login and motd

2007-12-25 8:34:00

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Thanks to everybody who answered my question. The mistery is solved!

I happened to have a ".hushlogin" in my home directory. The man page

for login mentions that this file "makes login quieter".

Nora Hermida

System Administrator

NOAA-National Weather Service

(301) 763-8648

Thanks to:

> Hello!

> I've been working at this place for a few months, and finally I have to

> fix this problem, but I am without a clue on this one . . .

> When we log in on our Suns, either at the machine itself or remotely,

> the /etc/motd does not get displayed.

> - We have SPARCs running SunOS 4.1.3.

> - We run csh. (I replaced my own .login and .cshrc with

> /usr/lib/Login and /usr/lib/Cshrc, respectively, to see if

> this made a difference, but it didn't.)

> - The permissions on /etc/motd are as follows:

> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root 765 Oct 22 14:08 motd

> Does anybody have an idea why this is happening? Thanks in advance.

> Nora Hermida

> NOAA-National Weather Service

> (301) 763-8648

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