Messages at login

[Brian Densmore]

The message of the day daemon
(aka motd).
IIRC

Doing a man on motd should help you figure out how to control
it. I'm sure there's a configuration file in /etc somewhere
as well as being in some start up groups.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Kedrovsky 
> 
> Where do the goofy messages come from when I login to my Slack 9.1?
> 
> I installed Slack several months ago. Whenever I log in as a user or
> root, I get a quippy little message. Some are funny. Some are
> insightful. Some are dumb. But, none of them can I control (at the
> moment). Where are these goofy messages called from? It's 
> gotta be a rc
> start-up script file, right? Calls a random text file buried somewhere
> in Slack's file structure. ??
> 
> I guess I can put up with the messages, even though I don't want to.
> But, recently I've been trying to learn a little about my 
> mail system. I
> went through a procmail tutorial (good one) and was introduced to
> mailstat. Neat little program. I'd like to run mailstat at login. The
> tutorial suggested putting the mailstat command in .login or 
> .profile in
> my ~/ directory. Neither one worked to get mail stats when I log in.
> Just the quippy SlackSaying.
> 
> So, I thought (bad idea, I know) that maybe if I found where 
> the quippy
> messages were coming from, I could put my mailstat command there.
> 
> Or, am I missing something?