Re: MOTD in g-s-d

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 15.11.2007 19:43, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 19:10 +0100, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > Haven't looked at the patch, but I think the comments on the bug
> > are spot on: Why would you want to put a once-at-login activity
> > into a long-running daemon? I don't see much of a difference between
> > gnome-session and g-s-d in that respect.
> >
> > We have an autostart mechanism, and it should be trivial to do
> > with zenity, for example.
> >
> right, but if the MOTD changes, that zenity-based thing wouldn't show
> the changes, so you need a long-running daemon to do that. And instead
> of having yet another process, we can use g-s-d.
>
> As I said, it just does not show only the message at login time, it does
> it whenever the /etc/motd file changes, which is very useful for users
> in multi-user systems.

Ok, if you actually want to continually monitor the file, that makes a bit
more sense. On the other hand, that might also make it more suitable for
gnome-session again, since it's not really a setting.

> And a good thing that could be added to this g-s-d module is the ability
> to show messages from the console (like 'system is shutting down in 5
> mins'), which wouldn't be possible with a simple zenity-based
> autostarted script

In that case, you should really think about renaming it to something other
than MotD...

Jens