From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 7 2:23:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3-gui.server.ntli.net (relay3-gui.server.ntli.net [194.168.4.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C2637B423 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 02:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([80.4.14.162] helo=rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net ident=mailnull) by relay3-gui.server.ntli.net with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #2) id 16iv3G-0000BA-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:23:10 +0000 Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.private.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16iv2W-0001rm-00; Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:22:24 +0000 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:22:24 +0000 From: Ceri To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Mike Meyer , Kevin McCormick , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I bought your system and am not so happy! Message-ID: <20020307102224.GA7008@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri , Giorgos Keramidas , Mike Meyer , Kevin McCormick , questions@freebsd.org References: <59884833@toto.iv> <15492.29227.910886.671669@guru.mired.org> <20020306180638.GI11735@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020306180638.GI11735@hades.hell.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:06:38PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-03-05 01:22, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Kevin McCormick types: > > > > Why don't you take this, and submit a PR suggesting that it - or > > something like it - be put in /etc/motd? > > Excellent idea. I don't recall the manpage, but OpenBSD has one of those > 'now that you finished installation, read this, and more stuff will seem > natural to you' pages. I recall, I quite liked it, when I had installed > OpenBSD for a while. Yup, first it sends a mail to root, and after theo introduces you to some stuff there, you're directed to read the afterboot(8) manpage. It's quite nice. -- keep a mild groove on To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message