Re: motd

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Fri, 07 Jul 95 18:10:58 +0100

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> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 95 09:33:27 +0100=0D
> From: l.hudson02@ic.ac.uk=0D
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu=0D
> Subject: motd=0D
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> Hi,=0D
> This should be an easy one!.=0D
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> Does anybody know how to stop the kernel writing a new version of th=
e 'motd' file=0D
> in the /etc directory. It's nice to be able to have a 'permanent' me=
ssage of the day!.=0D
Should be named `message of the century=B4 ;-)=0D
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> At the moment every time the computer is rebooted it re-writes this =
file. Other U*nx's=0D
> don't do this , why Linux??=0D
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It's not Linux but the distribution, if you are using Slackware 2.x is's =
done in =0D
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`/etc/rc.d/rc.S=B4.=0D
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* Ingo Kemper=0D
* Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry=0D
* Hospital "rechts der Isar"=0D
* Technical University of Munich=0D
* tbh01aa@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de Ingo.Kemper@muc=
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