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Re: sgi [8.3.5]: ssh/MOTD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Jun 8 12:21:24 1999
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To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jun 1999 09:28:43 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:18:44 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> OK, this is basically the same bug again: Irix's /etc/cshrc and
> /etc/profile print /etc/motd.
>
> We can live without both of them (and do for X logins), although
> interestingly, they set the environment variables NOMSGLABEL and
> NOMSGSEVERITY, which turn the silly Irix "UX:foo: ERROR: message"
> error messages into just "foo: message" like everyone else does... Do
> we want to incorporate that into our Irix dotfiles?
The disadvantage of setting NOMSGLABEL is that the program name is part
of the label:
boom> cat nosuchfile
UX:cat: ERROR: Cannot open nosuchfile: No such file or directory
boom> setenv NOMSGLABEL 1
boom> cat nosuchfile
ERROR: Cannot open nosuchfile: No such file or directory
So we'd be losing some useful info; I don't know how to modify this.
On the other hand, the "UX:" is ugly, and the default IRIX setting is to
suppress the label, so it's reasonable to add the settings to our dotfiles.
> I don't know how to make /etc/cshrc and /etc/profile not exist under
> Irix so someone else can do that.
It's a bit more work, but the better thing might be to add them as
configfiles; then, an OS update should leave new versions as .N files
(which we can remove on public machines).
Bob
