From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 5:21: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DE637B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from foem.leiden.webweaving.org (fia224-72.dsl.hccnet.nl [62.251.72.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400B443FF2 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 05:20:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Received: from foem (foem [10.11.0.2]) by foem.leiden.webweaving.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1DDKuwc018440 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:20:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirkx@webweaving.org) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:20:56 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik X-X-Sender: dirkx@foem.leiden.webweaving.org To: "Colin J. Raven" Cc: BSD Questions Subject: Re: Customizing /etc/motd In-Reply-To: <015401c2d360$3339c3a0$1500000a@scrk.com> Message-ID: <20030213141926.K82095-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Colin J. Raven wrote: > I'd like to tweak /etc/motd to give ssh users a personalized login text. su root ..type root password vi /etc/motd or, if you do not know the vi editor, use su root ..type root password ee /etc/motd Done. One normally does not edit/change the first line with "FreeBSD .." as this line is replaced at boot time with the actual version number. If you remove this line; then that will not happen. Dw To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message