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Subject: Re: How to prevent motd including os info
In-Reply-To: <19990911131422.A40199@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> from Ben Smithurst at "Sep 11, 99 01:14:22 pm"
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Thanks to everyone for this answer.
patmac


> Patrick MacKeown wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Set update_motd="NO" in rc.conf, and it will be left alone.
> 
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