Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:37:41 -0600 (MDT) From: Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS install problem with 2.2-960612-SNAP, motd, etc. Message-ID: <199606210037.SAA14673@hemi.com> In-Reply-To: <199606201916.OAA29155@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jun 20, 96 02:16:25 pm
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Joe Greco wrote: > > >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. Well, ok... just a few words... motd doesn't get modified on many operating systems, so a non-BSD admin may get surprised. On these systems, /usr/bin/login prints out the version of the operating system along with the copyright notice... that way the OS & version will *always* be displayed regardless of the /etc/motd file (unless quietlog is on)... maybe we should do this instead ? Simple change to login.c. I'd say... at least modify the code so it doesn't clobber the first line of the /etc/motd like it does, and note that it will break when year 2000 comes. Thanks, -Ade ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - <http://www.hemi.com/>; -------------------------------------------------------------------
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