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From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY)
Subject: The motd - what is going on?
Message-ID: <1993Nov1.190930.16144@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
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Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 19:09:30 GMT
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Ok.

	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. 

	The other day, the whole thing got eaten.

	What is going on here? What modifies the motd, and can I fix 
	this problem at all?


No motd no mo, Colin.


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fox@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca      Colin Bradley      McGill University, Montreal 

	  Quality of bubble varies directly with soap solution.