From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 31 15:24:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24915 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sphinx.lovett.com (root@sphinx.lovett.com [38.155.241.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA24889 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:24:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ade@demon.net) Received: from gorgon.lovett.com [38.155.241.3] (ade) by sphinx.lovett.com with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0xymH1-0003m0-00; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:24:31 -0600 To: Mike Smith cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Organization: Demon Internet Reply-To: ade@demon.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 01 Feb 1998 09:29:42 +1030." <199801312259.JAA00405@word.smith.net.au> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:24:31 -0600 From: Ade Lovett Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" Mike Smith writes: > >diffs like this are bogus; please use -c or -u. Sorry about that. Had it in my head that 'cvs diff' would do the right thing by itself - it's been a long couple of days :) >However the idea's not bad. You could soup up the prompt a little so >that "Enter 'help' for help" was there somewhere; having an otherwise >hidden command would be a Big Lose. I'd considered that, but thought it easier to add the relevant information into the /boot.banner message. My testbox used: ========================================================== --== Welcome to the 3.0-CURRENT version of FreeBSD ==-- A Full 4.4 BSD Lite Based 32-bit Operating System January 1998 FreeBSD Inc. Type 'help' for more information ========================================================== -aDe -- Ade Lovett, Demon Internet, Austin, Texas.