Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:45:54 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Mack <mack@macktronics.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in motd service / documentation Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.20.2010171543310.725@localhost.local> In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.20.2010171402490.725@localhost.local> References: <alpine.GSO.2.20.2010171402490.725@localhost.local>
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, Dan Mack wrote:
> I've been away for a while and missed the change and complexity added to
> /etc/motd. I figured it out but I was led astray by not knowing that it was
> converted into a service that only runs at boot time. If you just follow the
> instructions in the template file, you will nothing changes.
>
> As a suggestion, maybe change this line in the /etc/motd.template file:
>
> Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement.
>
> to:
>
> Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement and
> reboot or manually restart the motd service in /etc/rc.d/motd as in:
>
> /etc/rc.d/motd restart
>
> and also add an entry to the man page for motd.
>
> This was on: FreeBSD boxolox 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #1
> r366790: Sat Oct 17 08:57:56 CDT 2020
Instead of just complaining, I've attached a diff of a proposed
fix. Diff against base/head is here fwiw:
https://github.com/danmack/freebsd/tree/motd-doc-fix
Dan
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