From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 12:18:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA02434 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:18:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA02429 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id OAA29155; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:16:25 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199606201916.OAA29155@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. To: davidg@root.com Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:16:25 -0500 (CDT) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mbarkah@hemi.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606200946.CAA00362@root.com> from "David Greenman" at Jun 20, 96 02:46:25 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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