Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:16:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: davidg@root.com Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mbarkah@hemi.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. Message-ID: <199606201916.OAA29155@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199606200946.CAA00362@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jun 20, 96 02:46:25 am
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> >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. STRONG agreement. Any administrator worth his beans knows that /etc/motd gets modified at boot, in this fashion... and is free to disable it. It is really nice to tell people what environment to expect. I'm still grinning at whatever bug it is that stomps my motd on a SunOS 4.1 box every year or so.. the contents get randomly overwritten with the contents of some other file. :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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