Hi, guy!
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:26:14AM +0200, you wrote the following:
> > HI everybody,
> > Can anybody tell me how can i get the usrid of the user when new user log
> > in to the linux system.. and how can i set the messege for him for first
> > time only. The messenge should not come when he login second time.
> > thanks..
>
> one simple way of showing a one-time message, is setting the user's
> '.cshrc' run a system-wide script, that maintains a small database of
> users who've already seen the message. this script will show the mesasge
> only if the user is not already in that database, and then update the
> database. this is ofcourse a bit risky, since the database needs to be
> world-writeable (as the script runs under the ID of this new user).
In Debian there's a small package called sysnews which accomplishes
this, although slightly differently -- instead of maintaining a
database, it touches a file called $HOME/.news_time after showing the
messages, and doesn't display messages older than the date of that
file upon execution. Just put it in /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile
and then put files with messages in /var/news whenever you need.
I suppose the program is available for other distributions too.
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