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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc motd
In-Reply-To: <385399E1.480803AF@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Dec 12, 1999 09:49:37 pm"
To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:15:39 -0800 (PST)
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> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> > 
> > > dcs         1999/12/11 14:31:52 PST
> > >
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     etc                  motd
> > >   Log:
> > >   Trim to 24 lines. Yeah, I know, looks ugly.
> > 
> > And still to long, you need it to leave room for the fortune that is
> > going to come out after it, and 1 line for the prompt.  Some fortunes
> > are pretty long....
> 
> AFAIK, fortunes are not default on the root prompt. The point of the

Your FAIK needs to be updated:

:r !cvs -R -d /home/ncvs co -p -rHEAD src/etc/root/dot.login 

===================================================================
Checking out src/etc/root/dot.login
RCS:  /A/ncvs/src/etc/root/dot.login,v
VERS: 1.19
***************
# $FreeBSD: /A/ncvs/src/etc/root/dot.login,v 1.19 1999/08/27 23:24:09 peter Exp $
#
# csh .login file
#

set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin)
setenv MANPATH "/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man"

# Interviews settings
#setenv CPU "FREEBSD"
#set path = ($path /usr/local/interviews/bin/$CPU)
#setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/local/interviews/man"

# 8-bit locale (Germany)
#setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1

# A righteous umask
umask 22

[ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune

> default motd is giving direction to users new to FreeBSD. The other
> users are more likely to use home-made motd, not care about motd, or
> just scrlk/pgup to read it if they so desire.
> 
> Besides, some fortunes are so long that it won't matter motd's size,
> unless you use fortune -s.

True, perhaps dot.login should be changed to fortune -s to help with
this.  

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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