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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: The motd - what is going on? Message-ID: <CFu0y3.M7q@veda.is> Date: 1 Nov 93 21:27:23 GMT References: <1993Nov1.190930.16144@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Lines: 16 fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) writes: > On occassion, I've set up a small motd to let a few > people who login remotely what is going on. I have noticed > that whenever the machine is crashed or rebooted, or what-not, > the GENERICAHA line eats away at the motd text, from the top > down, roughly 1 or 2 lines per crash. From the top of the file down to the first blank line is assumed to be a version number. If you have no version number there as expected, it will happily eat the first few non-blank lines away. Take a look at the first things that are done in /etc/rc.local -- adam@veda.is