From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Sep 30 10:18:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from fe030.worldonline.dk (fe030.worldonline.dk [212.54.64.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9600D37B408 for ; Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9430 invoked by uid 0); 30 Sep 2001 17:17:37 -0000 Received: from 213.237.13.224.adsl.hc.worldonline.dk (HELO NEIGAARD?MOB) (213.237.13.224) by fe030.worldonline.dk with SMTP; 30 Sep 2001 17:17:37 -0000 Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 19:19:01 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Reply-To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <136102782863.20010930191901@e-box.dk> To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: motd In-Reply-To: <20010930172418.A94566@hades.hell.gr> References: <383627740.20010930135946@e-box.dk> <14591292291.20010930160730@e-box.dk> <20010930172418.A94566@hades.hell.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org both motd and fortune is working now (found out I can use both simultaneously :) Thanks for all the help. -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:neigaard@e-box.dk Sunday, September 30, 2001, 4:24:18 PM, Giorgos wrote: GK> S?ren Neigaard wrote: >> Sunday, September 30, 2001, 3:44:52 PM, Kevin wrote: >> >> KG> /etc/motd ? >> KG> I've never bothered changing mine but that's where it says I should if I >> KG> ever did. >> >> I think I will stick to the standard motd too, but how do I activate >> it? GK> If you haven't changed the default /etc/login.conf file it should contain the GK> following: GK> default:\ GK> :passwd_format=md5:\ GK> :copyright=/etc/COPYRIGHT:\ GK> :welcome=/etc/motd:\ GK> That `welcome' line is what you need to edit, and then run the command: GK> # cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf GK> If you have a very old version of FreeBSD, whose login.conf does not support GK> the welcome= capability, you can always add to your /etc/csh.cshrc the GK> following: GK> test -f /etc/motd && cat /etc/motd GK> and that should take care of it, for you. GK> -giorgos GK> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org GK> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message