[727] in Athena Bugs
Re: VAX 6.0C and RT 6.0C: no motd displayed at login time
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Wed Aug 31 19:09:34 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: John E Elsbree (Athena User Consultant) <elsj@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 31 Aug 88 18:13:03 -0400.
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 88 19:08:48 EDT
>Lately, I've not been seeing any message-of-the-day when I login:
> - no Zephyr notice
> - no message displayed in login window
> - not even the contents of /etc/motd on the local filesystem!
>What's the story?
the story is that there is no remote message of the day to be had, so
it is (necessarily) not shown. additionally, since the program to
fetch motds exists, the local motd isn't shown.
that's how it has been explained to me. so, in essence, nothing's
wrong with this picture.
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-- Henry Mensch / <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
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