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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 1996 02:46:25 -0700
From:      David Greenman <davidg@root.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. 
Message-ID:  <199606200946.CAA00362@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jun 1996 02:41:26 PDT." <15932.835263686@time.cdrom.com> 

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>>    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.
>
>We should still probably take this out - no reason to be scribbling on
>an administrator's carefully crafted motd file now, is there? :-)

   There are a few decades of precedence here. Without this, the OS & version
won't be printed when the user logs in. I think the code should stay as it is.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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