From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 3:46:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dolphin.lewiz.org (dialup.212-50-180-77.karoo.KCOM.COM [212.50.180.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC26337B419 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 03:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turtle.lewiz.org (turtle.lewiz.org [192.168.0.9]) by dolphin.lewiz.org with esmtp; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:46:14 +0000 Subject: Re: Feeling pleased with myself but..... From: lewiz To: Danny Horne Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 21 Apr 2002 12:46:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1019385988.301.2.camel@turtle.lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=_dolphin.lewiz.org-54839-1019385977-0001-2" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a MIME-formatted message. If you see this text it means that your E-mail software does not support MIME-formatted messages. --=_dolphin.lewiz.org-54839-1019385977-0001-2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Sounds like you've either got the motd in /etc (try rm /etc/motd&&touch /etc/motd to make it blank) OR you're talking about fortune. If you look at ~/.login there is a line [ -x /usr/games/fortune... If you try commenting this out it might do the trick. You could also check for other files containing fortune in /etc with: grep fortune /etc/* and then comment those out also. Hope that's been of some help. -lewiz. On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 12:25, Danny Horne wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > After reading many posts on the subject I cvsup'd my sources using > 4.5-RELEASE & rebuilt my system (currently 4.4-RELEASE & my first rebuild= ). > Everything went well, but logging in via SSH (my only form of access) now > brings up some sort of reminder on how to use various commands after my > usual MOTD. Anyone know what produces this & how to switch it off? >=20 > Thanks for all replies > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/2002 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 --=20 `Linux is for people who hate Microsoft. FreeBSD is for people who love UNIX.` Website accessible from http://www.lewiz.info/ GPG public keyring: http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pubring.gpg --=_dolphin.lewiz.org-54839-1019385977-0001-2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEABECAAYFAjzCmIEACgkQENEq59FkzSpzcACfbR+a/VvMHNaoVV2BukpJoIuA 38sAoI7CPAhXjH3g5MnWZPqPIHsqhG3i =ciaj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=_dolphin.lewiz.org-54839-1019385977-0001-2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message