NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/unix/sys5/r4/526

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From: [e-mail] (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: Suppressing login junk.
In-Reply-To: [e-mail]'s message of 16 Nov 92 15: 29:40 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (John Chambers) writes:
   We all know about /etc/motd and the grief it can cause for such things
   as uucico, of course.  Well, /etc/motd here is zero length, and still,
   when my program tries logging in (using either  a  serial  port  or  a
   telnet  connection),  it  gets  a  screen  full of "Copyright (C) ..."
   notices.   In  digging  around,  I  discovered  that  the  culprit  is
   /bin/login,  which  has the copyright notices hard coded.  TFM doesn't
   give a clue as to how to suppress them. Creating a .hushlogin file has
   no effect whatsoever, and I can't guess what might.

Two step solution:

1. Edit the binaries. I've done this with IRIX for YEARS. I use gmacs.

2. Bitch to your vendor. CC: it to USL. Yo, vendors, wake up. You remember
what uucp is? And how uucp will only read a "fixed" number of characters in
it's send/expect strings before it aborts a connection?

Clearly, the programmers at USL haven't got even 1/2 a clue. I hope some
of them are reading this.
 <tdr.
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