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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!hookup!news.Direct.CA!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: Why does /etc/rc.local rebuilds /etc/motd ? Message-ID: <D1HIJD.4GM@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: the Briney (notso) Deep Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 19:38:01 GMT References: <D1Fz4z.6s@luva.lb.bawue.de> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2.1 [BP] PL2.1] Lines: 9 Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote: : What's the reason /etc/motd is rebuild every time when rebooting? So motd will have the current system information, in case this was a reboot after a kernel build. If you don't care about this, comment out the lines that rebuild motd. Wes Peters