03-10-2005
This depends on the users shell/ What do you mean by "they do not see a unix prompt"? If they are running some non-standard software as their "shell", it will need to be modified to display a banner. Most shells arrarnge to display the file /etc/motd at login time. You might try putting something there.
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ekglogs
EKGLOGS(1) General Commands Manual EKGLOGS(1)
NAME
ekglogs - a logs lister for EKG
SYNTAX
ekglogs [ options ] < ~/.gg/history
DESCRIPTION
ekglogs reads ekg logs on standard input and prints them out nicely formatted on standard output.
OPTIONS
-t don't display time at all
-d don't display day changes
-x always print nicknames
-v never display nicknames (by default: print nicknames unless either `u' or `n' was specified)
-r display incoming messages' receipt time
-R like -r and align outgoing messages
-s display seconds
-S display receipt time seconds
-C display a colon between hours and minutes
-b do not display malformed lines (they start with !!!)
-a do not display status changes
-c use colourful display
-h display help message
-u UIN display only messages from/to UIN
-n NICK
display only messages from/to NICK
Options don't need to be preceded with `-', and may be concatenated.
Option `u' or `n' should be specified as last one. You should not specify both `u' and `n'.
AUTHOR
Robert Goliasz <rgoliasz@poczta.onet.pl>
SEE ALSO
ekg(1)
7 September 2003 EKGLOGS(1)