[Users] Disable MOTD on shell login

[Christian Hernandez]

> you don't have to write entire output of the shell to the file,
> all shell commands supports output redirection to file/linux utilities
> such as grep/etc. [1],

I actually didn't know that (just starting to use rhevm-shell)...this will
prove very helpful!

Thanks!

Thank you,

Christian Hernandez
1225 Los Angeles Street
Glendale, CA 91204
Phone: 877-782-2737 ext. 4566
Fax: 818-265-3152
christianh at 4over.com <mailto:christianh at 4over.com>
www.4over.com <http://www.4over.com>


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Michael Pasternak <mpastern at redhat.com>wrote:

>
> Hi Christian,
>
> On 09/10/2013 06:18 PM, Christian Hernandez wrote:
> > If I may interject....
> >
> > Disabling the MOTD makes it easier to script...let's say if I want to
> get a list of VMs' snapshots and out them in a for loop...I would have to
> write the output of the
> > rhevm-shell to a file; parse that file (oh BTW there are ^[[H and ^[[2
> in that file...just to make things more interesteing); then run it through
> my loop - and then pass
> > that into rhevm-shell...repeating the process.
>
> you don't have to write entire output of the shell to the file,
> all shell commands supports output redirection to file/linux utilities
> such as grep/etc. [1],
>
> also in "script mode" printed limited MOTD (without welcome message)
> if it still doesn't work for you, please file RFE (though i'm not sure it
> will make to 3.3)
>
> [1] list snapshots --vm-identifier aaa > snapshots.txt
> for more details see http://www.ovirt.org/CLI#Scripting
>
> > Also it doesn't help that rhevm-shell does a "clear" of the screen when
> it runs (can I turn that off too?)
>
> this is done for create "visual" isolation between bash and ovirt shells,
> not sure i understand how it related to the told above, but if you find it
> usable, i don't mind.
>
> >
> > I would have to do that for every command.
> >
> > I don't mind having an MOTD...just wished there was an option to turn it
> off
> >
> >
> > In short: It makes it easier to script and automate tasks.
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Christian Hernandez
> > 1225 Los Angeles Street
> > Glendale, CA 91204
> > Phone: 877-782-2737 ext. 4566
> > Fax: 818-265-3152
> > christianh at 4over.com <mailto:christianh at 4over.com> <mailto:
> christianh at 4over.com <mailto:christianh at 4over.com>>
> > www.4over.com <http://www.4over.com/> <http://www.4over.com <
> http://www.4over.com/>>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Michael Pasternak <mpastern at redhat.com<mailto:
> mpastern at redhat.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     Hi Anand,
> >
> >     On 09/10/2013 09:33 AM, Anand Nande wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > Is it possible $subject?
> >     > If so - please share how.
> >
> >     currently there is no "user-friendly" way to disable it,
> >     can you elaborate please why do you need that?
> >
> >     >
> >     > I tried to find the file which rhevm-shell would open using:
> >     >
> >     > # rhevm-shell -c -d    ...(no luck)
> >     > # lsof | egrep -i 'rhev|shell'   ...(no luck)
> >     >
> >     > Regards
> >     > --Anand
> >     >
> >
> >
> >     --
> >
> >     Michael Pasternak
> >     RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D
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> >
>
>
> --
>
> Michael Pasternak
> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D
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