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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Path: sparky!uunet!weyrich!orville
- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: Suppressing login junk.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.094006.4809@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <1393@minya.UUCP> <DERAADT.92Nov16235143@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca> <1992Nov18.025516.19133@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 09:40:06 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Nov18.025516.19133@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> bruno@athena.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall) writes:
- >deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
- >>In article <1393@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (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:
- >>
- >>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?
-
- Another work-around (I use it with a site that has an amazingly long
- login message about how to connect to several bbs's as well as uucp):
-
- Add selected text strings from the login message to the expect/send
- strings (with null send strings).
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- orville
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