Showing a MOTD with KDE

sirprize · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Ulm, Germany

Hi, I'm looking for a way to display administrative messages (Message of the Day) every time a user logs into KDE (currently 3.2.1).
It would be good if the program read the MOTD from /etc/motd, so I don't have to change it twice (for local KDE and for SSH/console logins).
A search in google showed me gtkmotd, which looks good - but I would prefer a KDE program. I also found a program called kmotd, but the site (http://www.guruz.de/kmotd.html) is dead, and on the main site, kmotd is absolutely not mentioned any more...

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Michael

shm · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 12:20 pm Post subject:

kdialog --msgbox `cat /etc/motd`

sirprize · n00b Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Ulm, Germany

Thanks very much, that almost worked.
It cut the motd off at the first whitespace, because it saw that as multiple arguments.

It works perfectly with