First pass at an implementation of a message of the day.  Decided
that storing the motd in a file called motd.txt in the same dir
as rpc_interface.py was the simplest solution.

Signed-off-by: Travis Miller <raphtee@google.com>



git-svn-id: http://test.kernel.org/svn/autotest/trunk@2659 592f7852-d20e-0410-864c-8624ca9c26a4
diff --git a/frontend/afe/rpc_utils.py b/frontend/afe/rpc_utils.py
index ad0080f..cf621bc 100644
--- a/frontend/afe/rpc_utils.py
+++ b/frontend/afe/rpc_utils.py
@@ -215,3 +215,19 @@
                     '(%d/%s, %d included, %d expected'
                     % (queue_entry.job.id, queue_entry.execution_subdir,
                        execution_count, queue_entry.job.synch_count)})
+
+
+def get_motd():
+    dirname = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+    filename = os.path.join(dirname, "..", "..", "motd.txt")
+    text = ''
+    try:
+        fp = open(filename, "r")
+        try:
+            text = fp.read()
+        finally:
+            fp.close()
+    except:
+        pass
+
+    return text