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IUJHJSDHE · Apr 24, 2002, 01:40 PM

I changed the "Welcome to darwin"

Who else here has changed there MOTD file? And to what?

[ 05-17-2002: Message edited by: IUJHJSDHE ]

Gene Jockey · Apr 25, 2002, 01:25 AM

Mine says

Darwin Kernel Version 5.4: Wed Apr 10 09:27:47 PDT 2002;

because I'm used to that sort of thing on my Sun boxen at school. I just run a little script every time I update that pulls the info from uname -a and puts it in the motd file. It used to say "Welcome to shiva, beware the spaces..." I liked that

--J

Gee4orce · Apr 25, 2002, 05:23 AM

I have a cron job that daily selects the MOTD from a file with literally 1000s of signature lines.

OK - so I was bored one day !

BigMac2 · Apr 25, 2002, 04:18 PM

Pretty simple

[APi]TheMan · Apr 25, 2002, 08:03 PM

Originally posted by IUJHJSDHE:
Who else here has changed there MOTD file? And to what?

My /etc/motd says:

Welcome to my MacOSX box. This box runs MacOSX 10.1.4. Behave or I'll have to kill you.

[localhost:~] theman%

Something to that effect

I want to spice mine up a bit more, but I'm not very creative... I saw some stuff in a forum recently about using some program called Flash, if I remember correctly, that lets you create menus... I'd be interested in learning how to do that, along with color coding...

IUJHJSDHE · Apr 26, 2002, 02:41 AM

Originally posted by BigMac2:
Pretty simple

SIMPLE!!!

THATS THE BEST ONE I HAVE SEEN SO FAR!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

waffffffle · Apr 26, 2002, 12:31 PM

Mine says this:
**************************************** ***************************************
Silver Pismo PowerBook G3 400Mhz/640MB/30GB Mac OS X 10.1.4

Welcome to Darwin!

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I can have it tell me when my last logon was. The school's Solaris, Linux and IRIX servers all show this line before displaying the motd file:

Last login: Mon Apr 08 2002 03:39:18 -0400

Where does that come from? It would be nice to have that.

Also I'd love to see that cron job thing. I know nothing about cron, but the ability to have random phrases at login would make things a lot more fun.

[ 04-26-2002: Message edited by: waffffffle ]

BigMac2 · Apr 26, 2002, 02:41 PM

Originally posted by waffffffle:
Mine says this:

Last login: Mon Apr 08 2002 03:39:18 -0400

Where does that come from? It would be nice to have that.

OSX should have a lastlog file, but it's not created at the installation of OSX (Apple has miss this one), so you need to create with
<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre>
touch /var/log/lastlog
[/code]

And now you should get your last login

Cybertron · Apr 26, 2002, 02:48 PM

Think simple

oeyvind · Apr 26, 2002, 02:55 PM

from my PB G4 667

[ 05-14-2002: Message edited by: oeyvind ]

Cybertron · Apr 26, 2002, 03:06 PM

TOO MUCH SIMPLE, adds color, twinkling there words and a good LOGO, it is Mac, puts a little more imagination

waffffffle · Apr 26, 2002, 07:13 PM

Originally posted by BigMac2:


OSX should have a lastlog file, but it's not created at the installation of OSX (Apple has miss this one), so you need to create with
<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre>
touch /var/log/lastlog
</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

And now you should get your last login

Thanks! That works perfectly. Although is there a way to change the format in which the date is displayed?

BigMac2 · Apr 26, 2002, 08:47 PM

Originally posted by waffffffle:


Thanks! That works perfectly. Although is there a way to change the format in which the date is displayed?

I don't know, it appear to be hardcoded in the login command.

ThunderP · Apr 27, 2002, 12:56 AM

ok, stupid question, probably, but how do u do that nifty transparency effect in the terminal???

Justin W. Williams · Apr 27, 2002, 01:09 AM

Welcome to Macintosh!* (*appropriated from NeXT by Steve Jobs, and rebranded
so as to exploit the Macintosh name and userbase)

[Credit to Cipher13 for that one]

Scrod · Apr 27, 2002, 07:16 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre>
Welcome to Zach's PowerBook! If you mess anything up he WILL know about it.
[powerbook:~] scrod%
[/code]

amonitzer · Apr 28, 2002, 07:28 AM

Mine is:
This computer system is for authorized users only.

Individuals using this system without authority or
in excess of their authority are subject to having
all their activities on this system monitored and
recorded or examined by any authorized person,
including law enforcement, as system personnel deem
appropriate.

In the course of monitoring individuals
improperly using the system or in the course of
system maintenance, the activities of authorized
users may also be monitored and recorded. Any
material so recorded may be disclosed as appropriate.

Anyone using this system consents to these terms.

(Yes, I'm the only user on the system

)

tinrib · Apr 28, 2002, 08:37 AM

how do you make those cool motds with graphics? and color...

Grozni Majmun · Apr 28, 2002, 05:00 PM

Originally posted by ThunderP:
ok, stupid question, probably, but how do u do that nifty transparency effect in the terminal???

The easiest way is to download a little program called tinkertool from versiontracker or wherever. It allows you to change some preferences that apple has left hidden. You can also just type in some cryptic command, but I don't remember that...

BigMac2 · Apr 28, 2002, 05:57 PM

Originally posted by Grozni Majmun:
You can also just type in some cryptic command, but I don't remember that...

simple

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre> defaults write com.apple.Terminal TerminalOpaqueness <value> [/code]

The value it's something between 0 and 1.

Colddiver2 · May 14, 2002, 08:18 AM

I am working on mine... I would like to put the output of both date and uname commands on a single line... Anyone knows how to do this?

Colddiver

sahara · May 14, 2002, 02:40 PM

'I am the big cat who is in the seat of truth, in whom the light shines.'

From the Egyptian Book of the Dead, hehe... Boosts morale before I start getting compile errors.

kvm_mkdb · May 14, 2002, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by Colddiver2:
I am working on mine... I would like to put the output of both date and uname commands on a single line... Anyone knows how to do this?

Colddiver

something like

date "+`uname -sr` date is %m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S"

?

[APi]TheMan · May 15, 2002, 01:37 AM

How do you execute commands in your motd? I try but it just prints the commands rather than their output. hehehe.

tinrib · May 15, 2002, 07:43 AM

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
How do you execute commands in your motd? I try but it just prints the commands rather than their output. hehehe.

i'm not sure but you could try putting the command in `back ticks`

Colddiver2 · May 15, 2002, 08:11 AM

Well... Actually, it isn't the MOTD file I was editing but rather my .cshrc (this explains why I didn't had any troubles executing commands)...

Thanks for the command trick!

Colddiver

[APi]TheMan · May 15, 2002, 09:11 AM

Originally posted by Colddiver2:
Well... Actually, it isn't the MOTD file I was editing but rather my .cshrc (this explains why I didn't had any troubles executing commands)...

Thanks for the command trick!

Colddiver

I'm having trouble writing the date, I'm using echo `%m/%d%y` and it doesn't work. I need more info on how to execute commands to display at logon.

Wevah · May 15, 2002, 09:38 AM

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:


I'm having trouble writing the date, I'm using echo `%m/%d%y` and it doesn't work. I need more info on how to execute commands to display at logon.

Maybe try [b]`date '+%m/%d %y'`[b] ?

Wevah · May 15, 2002, 09:39 AM

Guess not; just tried....

Damn.

kvm_mkdb · May 15, 2002, 02:49 PM

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:


I'm having trouble writing the date, I'm using echo `%m/%d%y` and it doesn't work. I need more info on how to execute commands to display at logon.

echo does not know the date... what are you trying to accomplish?

[APi]TheMan · May 15, 2002, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by kvm_mkdb:


echo does not know the date... what are you trying to accomplish?

I'm not particularily looking to put the date in my motd, I'm just trying to find out how to execute a command.... When I write echo, the shell outputs "echo"... It's not executing a program.

I'm looking for a general knowledge of how to execute commands to be displayed at logon, not necesarily the date.

Wevah · May 15, 2002, 05:07 PM

You could try putting it in your .tcshrc ...

[APi]TheMan · May 15, 2002, 09:51 PM

Originally posted by Wevah:
You could try putting it in your .tcshrc ...

Don't .cshrc and .tcshrc do the same thing?

furtheraway · May 17, 2002, 02:46 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre>caution: not for use with mono devices[/code]

a bucket of wet chicken feathers to anyone who catches the reference.

chris v · May 17, 2002, 04:39 PM

Originally posted by furtheraway:
<BLOCKQUOTE>code:<HR><pre>caution: not for use with mono devices</pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

a bucket of wet chicken feathers to anyone who catches the reference.

didn't some old vinyl albums say that when stereo first came out in the early sixties?

Anyway, I got curious, so I changed my motd to:

Doctor, I'm afraid it's Terminal!

Had to do it in root, as I can't figure out how to get pico to overwrite otherwise. chown is still greek to this proto-geek.

CV

furtheraway · May 17, 2002, 04:48 PM

that's it, chris. it also appears in the liner notes of a happy little record called 'broken' from '92. a fun time for everyone.

loudambiance · Apr 28, 2008, 03:14 PM

MOTD file can be downloaded here: MOTD

Chuckit · Apr 28, 2008, 05:15 PM