Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:57:44 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@root.com> To: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. Message-ID: <199606200757.AAA03457@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:10:15 MDT." <199606200510.XAA19984@hemi.com>
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>Oh, another thing... as always since long ago, the initial >rc.local has the following code in it: > >| T=/tmp/_motd ... >| uname -v | sed ... > $T >| ... >| cp $T /etc/motd > >The above is extremely annoying. =-) Is there a good reason to keep >such code in rc.local ? Can we get rid of it ? Please ? =-) I can >just think of all the poor FreeBSD newcomers who can't for the life >of them figure out why their /etc/motd keeps on dissappearing. Over- >writing user files is morally bad, anyways. It doesn't really overwrite the file. It simply prepends the FreeBSD version string to the front of the file. The previous contents are still kept intact. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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