unix: "directory" question

From: justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM
Date: Tue Nov 26 2002 - 14:12:30 EST


Let's see if I can ask this right..... I have a directory under the "/usr"
directory called: "/usr/data-files/". Now I want to be able create like a
message of the day (motd) when a user issues an "ls" on that particular
directory kind of like the following (please note I cut and paste this motd
sort of speak, I added it manually with this email) I want to know how to
really set this up in UNIX/AIX:

$ ls -l
***The files in this directory are oracle database files, please be
careful***
total 1699560
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 3235840 Nov 26 14:18 control01.ctl
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 3235840 Nov 26 14:18 control02.ctl
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 3235840 Nov 26 14:18 control03.ctl
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle sys 0 Nov 22 17:40 dragonlf-cases.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle sys 5251072 Nov 22 17:39 dragonlf-contacts.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle sys 4202496 Nov 22 17:39 dragonlf-expense.dbf
-rw-r----- 1 oracle sys 5251072 Nov 22 17:39 dragonlf-payroll.dbf
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 56631296 Nov 22 17:39 indx01.dbf
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 541073408 Nov 26 06:23 rbs01.dbf
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 512512 Nov 26 05:52 redo01.log
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 512512 Nov 22 17:39 redo02.log
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 512512 Nov 22 17:39 redo03.log
drwxr-sr-x 2 root sys 512 Nov 22 17:38 stuff
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 56631296 Nov 22 18:10 system01.dbf
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 71311360 Nov 22 17:39 temp01.dbf
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 8396800 Nov 22 17:39 tools01.dbf
-rw-rw---- 1 oracle sys 109060096 Nov 22 17:39 users01.dbf
$

Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Thanks!.

--Justin



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