Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:15:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: dcs@FreeBSD.org (Daniel C. Sobral), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc motd Message-ID: <199912122015.MAA12852@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <385399E1.480803AF@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Dec 12, 1999 09:49:37 pm"
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> "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> >
> > > dcs 1999/12/11 14:31:52 PST
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > etc motd
> > > Log:
> > > Trim to 24 lines. Yeah, I know, looks ugly.
> >
> > And still to long, you need it to leave room for the fortune that is
> > going to come out after it, and 1 line for the prompt. Some fortunes
> > are pretty long....
>
> AFAIK, fortunes are not default on the root prompt. The point of the
Your FAIK needs to be updated:
:r !cvs -R -d /home/ncvs co -p -rHEAD src/etc/root/dot.login
===================================================================
Checking out src/etc/root/dot.login
RCS: /A/ncvs/src/etc/root/dot.login,v
VERS: 1.19
***************
# $FreeBSD: /A/ncvs/src/etc/root/dot.login,v 1.19 1999/08/27 23:24:09 peter Exp $
#
# csh .login file
#
set path = (/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin $HOME/bin)
setenv MANPATH "/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man"
# Interviews settings
#setenv CPU "FREEBSD"
#set path = ($path /usr/local/interviews/bin/$CPU)
#setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/local/interviews/man"
# 8-bit locale (Germany)
#setenv LANG de_DE.ISO_8859-1
# A righteous umask
umask 22
[ -x /usr/games/fortune ] && /usr/games/fortune
> default motd is giving direction to users new to FreeBSD. The other
> users are more likely to use home-made motd, not care about motd, or
> just scrlk/pgup to read it if they so desire.
>
> Besides, some fortunes are so long that it won't matter motd's size,
> unless you use fortune -s.
True, perhaps dot.login should be changed to fortune -s to help with
this.
--
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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