On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, Dan Mack wrote: > I've been away for a while and missed the change and complexity added to > /etc/motd. I figured it out but I was led astray by not knowing that it was > converted into a service that only runs at boot time. If you just follow the > instructions in the template file, you will nothing changes. > > As a suggestion, maybe change this line in the /etc/motd.template file: > > Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement. > > to: > > Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement and > reboot or manually restart the motd service in /etc/rc.d/motd as in: > > /etc/rc.d/motd restart > > and also add an entry to the man page for motd. > > This was on: FreeBSD boxolox 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #1 > r366790: Sat Oct 17 08:57:56 CDT 2020 Instead of just complaining, I've attached a diff of a proposed fix. Diff against base/head is here fwiw: https://github.com/danmack/freebsd/tree/motd-doc-fix Dan
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