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Date:      Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:52:06 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: bug in motd service / documentation
Message-ID:  <CANCZdfpS2_NKCbAhPzMtFu6d2r9hRNp02ACU1zeeFigtLRurtQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 2:46 PM Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, Dan Mack wrote:
>
> > I've been away for a while and missed the change and complexity added to
> > /etc/motd.   I figured it out but I was led astray by not knowing that
> it was
> > converted into a service that only runs at boot time.  If you just
> follow the
> > instructions in the template file, you will nothing changes.
> >
> > As a suggestion, maybe change this line in the /etc/motd.template file:
> >
> > Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement.
> >
> > to:
> >
> > Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement and
> > reboot or manually restart the motd service in /etc/rc.d/motd as in:
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/motd restart
> >
> > and also add an entry to the man page for motd.
> >
> > This was on:  FreeBSD boxolox 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #1
> >              r366790: Sat Oct 17 08:57:56 CDT 2020
>
> Instead of just complaining, I've attached a diff of a proposed
> fix.  Diff against base/head is here fwiw:
>     https://github.com/danmack/freebsd/tree/motd-doc-fix


Thanks Dan. I'll commit this  if someone doesn't beat me to it.

Warner



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