Re: Sources of changes to /etc/motd and of other login messages?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:34:48AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> What process or utility changes the contents of /etc/motd?
> Occasionally, I see an extra system identification line that has been
> placed into that file.

  [cjwatson@arborlon /etc/init.d]$ grep motd *
  bootmisc.sh:# Update /etc/motd.
  bootmisc.sh:    uname -a > /etc/motd.tmp
  bootmisc.sh:    sed 1d /etc/motd >> /etc/motd.tmp
  bootmisc.sh:    mv /etc/motd.tmp /etc/motd
  [cjwatson@arborlon /etc/init.d]$ dlocate bootmisc.sh
  sysvinit: /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

> Also, what causes the following prompt to print out at login, after
> /etc/motd has been displayed?  ...
> 
>   Last login: Wed Dec 11 06:25:26 2002 from 204.212.175.30

Not sure ...

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]