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

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:34:48AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
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>   [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

I didn't think this was connected to system initialization at boot time,
but perhaps the system has been rebooted more frequently than I thought.

Thanks.


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> Cheers,
>
> -- 
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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