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Thanks to everybody who answered my question. The mistery is solved!
I happened to have a ".hushlogin" in my home directory. The man page
for login mentions that this file "makes login quieter".
Nora Hermida
System Administrator
NOAA-National Weather Service
nhermida@sun1.wwb.noaa.gov
(301) 763-8648
Thanks to:
jjs@library.att.com
adam%bwnmr4@harvard.harvard.edu
adap@andrews.edu
xm3rs@sdcc12.UCSD.EDU
kent@mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca
johnb@blas.cis.mcmaster.ca
Tj.Jongeling@wbmt.tudelft.nl
tim@ben.dciem.dnd.ca
mjassels@cs.concordia.ca
tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com
fmufti@genetics.bio-rad.com
0085P%NAVPGS.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU
ju@compwr.com
>
> Hello!
>
> I've been working at this place for a few months, and finally I have to
> fix this problem, but I am without a clue on this one . . .
>
> When we log in on our Suns, either at the machine itself or remotely,
> the /etc/motd does not get displayed.
>
> - We have SPARCs running SunOS 4.1.3.
>
> - We run csh. (I replaced my own .login and .cshrc with
> /usr/lib/Login and /usr/lib/Cshrc, respectively, to see if
> this made a difference, but it didn't.)
>
> - The permissions on /etc/motd are as follows:
>
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 root 765 Oct 22 14:08 motd
>
> Does anybody have an idea why this is happening? Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Nora Hermida
> NOAA-National Weather Service
> nhermida@sun1.wwb.noaa.gov
> (301) 763-8648
>
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