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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Motd Post 62816 by zazzybob on Sunday 20th of February 2005 05:36:19 AM
Old 02-20-2005
Putting the script within the global shell initialisation files would probably be the easiest way to go about it as gliss suggests.

You can use escape sequences to display certain information within /etc/issue, but not /etc/motd using most versions of getty - Linux uses (usually) agetty (sometimes mingetty - check /etc/inittab). Check the manual page for your particular getty program to get the escapes. You can have nodename (hostname) and domain name information, but not IP addresses as far as I can recall.

Cheers
ZB
 

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UUID_COMPARE(3) 						    Libuuid API 						   UUID_COMPARE(3)

NAME
uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same SYNOPSIS
#include <uuid.h> int uuid_compare(uuid_t uu1, uuid_t uu2) DESCRIPTION
The uuid_compare function compares the two supplied uuid variables uu1 and uu2 to each other. RETURN VALUE
Returns an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if uu1 is found, respectively, to be lexicographically less than, equal, or greater than uu2. AUTHOR
Theodore Y. Ts'o AVAILABILITY
libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. SEE ALSO
uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3) util-linux May 2009 UUID_COMPARE(3)
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