From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 11 5: 9: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns02.arpa-canada.net (dns02.arpa-canada.net [209.104.118.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 840EA150D2 for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:09:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@MLINK.NET) Received: (qmail 98934 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Sep 1999 12:08:57 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Sep 1999 12:08:57 -0000 Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 08:08:57 -0400 (EDT) From: matt X-Sender: matt@dns02.arpa-canada.net To: patmac@demon.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info In-Reply-To: <199909111127.MAA00229@gti.noc.demon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrick MacKeown wrote: : Hi : : Please would somebody tell me how to prevent motd including the OS version : and the kernel name. On my 3.2 box editing the lines out of /etc/motd just : leads to them being replaced : : Patrick Mackeown Edit /etc/rc.conf and change update_motd="YES" to update_motd="NO", or add update_motd="NO" to /etc/rc.conf to override the default "YES" in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. That'll take care of your problem. -Matt -- // Matt Heckaman: matt@mlink.net -OR- admin@arpa-canada.net // // System Administrator/Owner: http://www.arpa-canada.net // To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message