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| 8 | .TH LERT 1 "December 30, 1994" "MIT DCNS" |
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| 9 | .ds ]W MIT DCNS |
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| 10 | .SH NAME |
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| 11 | lert \- display account deactivation messages |
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| 12 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 13 | .B lert |
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| 14 | [ |
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| 15 | .BI -z[ephyr] |
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| 16 | ] [ |
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| 17 | .BI -m[ail] |
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| 18 | ] [ |
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| 19 | .BI -n[o] |
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| 20 | ] [ |
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| 21 | .BI -q[uiet] |
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| 22 | ] |
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| 23 | .ti +5n |
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| 24 | [ |
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| 25 | .BI -s[erver] |
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| 26 | hostname |
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| 27 | ] |
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| 28 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 29 | .I lert |
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| 30 | shows any messages directed to you by Athena Accounts (e.g. |
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| 31 | notification that your account is scheduled for deactivation). Lert is |
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| 32 | run automatically during login to assure that such messages are |
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| 33 | displayed for you in a timely manner. You can also run lert manually |
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| 34 | from the Athena prompt to review such messages. You can acknowledge |
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| 35 | any current messages directed to you by running lert with the -n |
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| 36 | switch. While this will stop the current messages from being |
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| 37 | displayed when you login, it will not prevent you from receiving new |
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| 38 | messages in the future. |
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| 39 | The default display method is to display each message using cat. |
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| 40 | .TP 12 |
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| 41 | .B \-z[ephyr] |
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| 42 | display each message as a Zephyr |
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| 43 | Windowgram (see |
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| 44 | .I zephyr(1) |
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| 45 | for details.) |
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| 46 | .TP |
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| 47 | .B \-m[ail] |
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| 48 | send each message to you as an email message. |
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| 49 | .TP |
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| 50 | .B \-n[o] |
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| 51 | acknowledge the current set of messages. The current set of messages |
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| 52 | is shown one last time and you are not shown these messages again. |
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| 53 | .TP |
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| 54 | .B \-q[uiet] |
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| 55 | fail silently if an error occurs while contacting the server. |
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| 56 | .TP |
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| 57 | \fB\-s[erver]\fI hostname \fR |
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| 58 | |
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| 59 | Connect to the lert server "hostname". lert will use Hesiod to determine |
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| 60 | the default server if this option is not specified. |
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| 61 | .SH EXAMPLE |
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| 62 | .TP |
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| 63 | .B lert | lpr |
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| 64 | print current messages |
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| 65 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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| 66 | zephyr(1) |
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| 67 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 68 | .PP |
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| 69 | Mike Barker <mbarker@mit.edu> |
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| 70 | .SH RESTRICTIONS |
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| 71 | Copyright (c) 1994 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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| 72 | All Rights Reserved. |
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