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Hi

I am trying to figure out, on how to automate whether in a simple script or using awk/sed/grep commands to automate a "service.message" file which has tag separated message stating as;

"There is currently no outage or system is unavailable for duration of change....", therefore, when users log into the application front end they will see this message and phone number/email etc and they click on dismiss or continue to progress. Image attached.

I am only interested in the service message portion, to include few lines, nothing else...How can this be achieved using any regular expression commands or simple script?

Thanks.
G

What operating system and version are you using?

Search this forum and the web for '/etc/motd' (which stands for "message of the day").

Do you want users to see your message when they login to the system or when they launch a particular application?

Hi

I am using Linux version 7.2 and I want users to see the message when they log into the application via front end i.e. url. And here they will see the message and click on dismiss continue etc... This could be when we are delivering a new release, every quarter and so on.

At the moment it is just manual process, and just needs the message portion, few lines automating, within a .sh script probably will do the trick.

Hope this helps. Please Advise.
Gaz

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The other thing is /etc/motd probably works as if you are logging into a shell rather than displaying this message on front end application, so been searching around, don't think that will be helpful?

I don't know if there is something sed command or simpler which can replace or setup custom tags between the service message?

Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks

So users connect to the application via a URL so shouldn't this be coded in html rather than a Unix shell?

Yes, it could be in html as currently the file which has that service message line "xxxxx" is in html. Therefore, I thought there could be something using some file manipulation commands to read from another file to achieve this though...maybe not....

Any idea's?
Thanks

What is your application? What language is it written in? It'd make more sense to do so in the application.

Hi

Its an application used for criminal justice system running on backend WebSphere/Linux and DB2.

You cant do it from the app, otherwise it would have been done but its been done manually by editing the service.message file but we just want this portion updated...whether its a one liner, realistically speaking not really required to invest time and effort but business want this automated so the transition team then can support the app and run the automation in future.

I was looking at SED, today, maybe there is some way to set this up...
Hope this Helps.

Thanks