[389] in athena10
Re: Desupporting the Console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 6 11:01:50 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 10:53 -0400, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> I note that we're de-supporting the Console, however the standard
> dotfiles send the output of "from -t -n" to the Console, and people
> will likely notice this is missing. (Plenty of people also send the
> output of "znol -l" there, but I'm less concerned about that)
Which standard dotfiles? The Athena 9.4 xsession is not in Athena 10.
> Is there a good way to inform users of new messages upon login? Some
> version of xbiff that knows how to deal with things other than local
> mail spools, perhaps?
We could use zenity to display the output of "from -t -n" but I didn't
think it would be worth the dialog spam.
