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Creating a System-Specific Login Welcome Message (Optional)  



You can use SYS$WELCOME to display a system-specific welcome message at login. The message could inform users of scheduled down time, recent updates to the system, who to contact if they are having system problems, and so forth. A template file is provided by the operating system. To create your own SYS$WELCOME file, do the following:
  1. Copy the template file using the following command:
    $ COPY SYS$MANAGER:WELCOME.TXT SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]WELCOME.TXT
  2. Replace the text in SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]WELCOME.TXT with text specific to your system.
  3. Edit SYS$MANAGER:SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to remove the exclamation point (!) from the line that defines SYS$WELCOME.

If you do not want to use a node-specific welcome file, you can optionally define the logical in SYS$MANAGER:SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM to display a message, such as in the following example:

$ DEFINE SYS$WELCOME "Welcome to node HOMER"
For more information about starting and creating queues, refer to the HP OpenVMS System Manager's Manual, Volume 1: Essentials.
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