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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uknet!cf-cm!isl.cf.ac.uk!paul From: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Subject: Re: changing 2.0 behavior Message-ID: <1994Dec6.175044.20210@cm.cf.ac.uk> Sender: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Nntp-Posting-Host: isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk Organization: ELSYM, University of Wales, College of Cardiff, UK. References: <D05wFw.v2@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 17:50:42 +0000 Lines: 16 In article <D05wFw.v2@murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>, Brian -Paco- Hope <paco@Virginia.EDU> wrote: >Secondly, I don't want any motd most of the time. I deleted the >contents of /etc/motd but left a 0-length file there. The next time >I boot up, it has contents again: FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE. I suppose >I could delete the file, but why does it come back if I just 0-out >the contents? In /etc/rc.local there's a chunk of code that writes the release info to /etc/motd. Comment it out if you don't want it. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x5958 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK