If you like ASCII art as much as I do, you might be interested to know that you can create your own ASCII art banners using the banner command on UNIX/Linux. You can create banners like this:
I pipe the output of banner to /etc/motd so the banner message is displayed when users login. If you need information on what /etc/motd (Mesage of the Day) is and how it works, see this SCO Group page for details. Continue reading for the banner source.
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I pipe the output of banner to /etc/motd so the banner message is displayed when users login. If you need information on what /etc/motd (Mesage of the Day) is and how it works, see this SCO Group page for details. Continue reading for the banner source.
For Linux, you can find the banner source here: banner.c.gz
Compile the source using gcc:
#/> gunzip banner.c.gz
#/> gcc -o banner banner.c
#/> ./banner cool
To make the banner your M.O.T.D. (/etc/motd), as root run:
(root)#/> ./banner system name | tee -a /etc/motd
For Solaris, you can find the source here.
On HP-UX, banner is already built and installed with the core OS. For Perl nuts, there's actually a Perl version of banner on CPAN (Banner.pm).
Compile the source using gcc:
#/> gunzip banner.c.gz
#/> gcc -o banner banner.c
#/> ./banner cool
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#### #### #### ######
To make the banner your M.O.T.D. (/etc/motd), as root run:
(root)#/> ./banner system name | tee -a /etc/motd
For Solaris, you can find the source here.
On HP-UX, banner is already built and installed with the core OS. For Perl nuts, there's actually a Perl version of banner on CPAN (Banner.pm).
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