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and edit it to say whatever you want. It is purely a text file and will be
sent automatically to anyone logging in to the cluster.
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-<H2><A NAME="ss6.2">6.2 Downtime message</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.2">6.2 MOTD_NOR</A>
+</H2>
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+<P>This message of the day file lives in the same directory as the standard
+motd file but is only sent to non-registered users. Once registered they
+will receive the same message as any other user.
+<P>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.3">6.3 Downtime message</A>
</H2>
<P>If for any reason the cluster is down, maybe for upgrade or maintenance but
This file will be sent to a user attempting to log into the cluster when
DXSpider is not actually running.
<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss6.3">6.3 Other text messages</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.4">6.4 Other text messages</A>
</H2>
<P>You can set other text messages to be read by the user if they input the file
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<P>The page length will of course depend on what you have it set to!
<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss6.4">6.4 The Aliases file</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.5">6.5 The Aliases file</A>
</H2>
<P>You will find a file in /spider/cmd/ called Aliases. First, copy this file to
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+<P>
<P>You can create aliases for commands at will. Beware though, these may not
always turn out as you think. Care is needed and you need to test the
results once you have set an alias.
<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss6.5">6.5 Console.pl</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.6">6.6 Console.pl</A>
</H2>
<P>In later versions of Spider a simple console program is provided for the sysop.
<P>To edit the colours, copy /spider/perl/Console.pl to /spider/local and edit the
file with your favourite editor.
<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss6.6">6.6 Updating kepler data</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.7">6.7 Updating kepler data</A>
</H2>
<P>Spider has a powerful and flexible show/satellite command. In order for
export 5467 /spider/perl/keps.in
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+<P>
<P>would export message number 5467 as a file called keps.in in the
/spider/perl directory.
+<P>
<P>Now login to a VT as sysop and cd /spider/perl. There is a command in
the perl directory called <EM>convkeps.pl</EM>. All we need to do now is
convert the file like so ...
./convkeps.pl keps.in
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+<P>
<P>Now go back to the cluster and issue the command ...
<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><CODE>
load/keps
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+<P>
<P>That is it! the kepler data has been updated.
<P>
-<H2><A NAME="ss6.7">6.7 The QRZ callbook</A>
+<H2><A NAME="ss6.8">6.8 The QRZ callbook</A>
</H2>
<P>The command <EM>sh/qrz</EM> will only work once you have followed a few