From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 00:57:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA24882 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA24877 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.5/8.6.5) with SMTP id AAA03457; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:57:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199606200757.AAA03457@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Ade Barkah cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:10:15 MDT." <199606200510.XAA19984@hemi.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@root.com Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:57:44 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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