[2940] in Athena Bugs
.hushlogin and verbose_login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Mon Aug 21 01:03:58 1989
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 89 01:03:32 -0400
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
As things stand now in the prototype files, I can either see both
the motd displayed by /bin/login and the "Running custom startup
activities..." message, or neither of them. This is unacceptable.
The motd is something relevant, which may change based on the
workstation, and which I want to see. The "Running custom startup
activites..." message is a useless piece of fluff which, although it
might not seem significant, is quite annoying over a modem line. Even
if it ISN'T that significant, there should still be a way to get it to
go away without also making the motd go away.
I'm probably going to get flamed to a crisp for proposing another
shell variable, but I propose that the line which sets verbose_login
after checking for the file ~/.hushlogin should also check to see if
the variable quiet_login has already been set; if it has, then
verbose_login should not be set.
I'm also going to probably be told that there's no way to get this
onto the packs before they go out to everybody, even though it's a
change of maybe twenty characters ("(! $?quiet_login)"). Sigh.
I probably won't see any of the responses to this before it is
rejected or accepted, since I'm going away in twelve hours for a week,
but I wanted to suggest it anyway....
jik
