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| Boulware5 2002-06-10, 8:16 pm |
| My Unix book mentiones the news command in order to find out what is happening on the system. News is usually placed in /usr/news. However, I cannot find such a command in Linux nor a /usr/news file. A 'man' on news returns nothing. Is this in Linux at all or does Linux do away with this command? | |
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| I did not find anything about it
I use Red Hat, Mandrake and Caldera | |
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| In Linux you can use top and ps to do that | |
| Boulware5 2002-06-10, 10:35 pm |
| I guess this is one difference between Linux and Unix. Anyone know if this can be done in FreeBSD? It should... | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-06-11, 7:06 am |
| The "news" command is used a lot in various Unices for the admin to add some stuff that should be displayed to users when they execute the "news" command. Some variants use the /etc/motd or /etc/issue files to display these messages each time you log on. Since most Unix machines are no longer used for time sharing, but usually as servers, it isn't as common anymore. To see system activity, you can use "ps" top" or "pstree". |
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