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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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System Administrator wrote:

> Also, i forgot which file (probably in /etc) generates the motd file upon
> rebooting.  any ideas?

Hmm... I don't know why your From: header says ``System Administrator''
when you can't even use grep.

$ grep /etc/motd /etc/*
grep: /etc/master.passwd: Permission denied
grep: /etc/skeykeys: Permission denied
grep: /etc/spwd.db: Permission denied
grep: /etc/ssh_host_key: Permission denied
grep: /etc/ssh_random_seed: Permission denied
grep: /etc/uucp: Permission denied
/etc/login.conf:	:welcome=/etc/motd:\
/etc/rc.local:echo -n 'rebuilding /etc/motd:'
/etc/rc.local:awk '{if (NR == 1) {if ($1 == "FreeBSD") {next} else {print "\n"$0}} else {print}}' < /etc/motd >> $T
/etc/rc.local:cp $T /etc/motd
/etc/rc.local:chmod 644 /etc/motd

That should give you a pretty large clue.

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