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From: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Why does /etc/rc.local rebuilds /etc/motd ?
Date: 30 Dec 1994 04:23:09 -0600
Organization: Marquette Electronics, Inc.
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In comp.os.386bsd.questions article <3dspru$nne@news.simplex.nl>, rob@Simplex.NL (Rob Simons) wrote:
: ...[about /etc/motd being rebuilt on reboots]...
:Btw, is that fixed in 2.0 now ?

To fix something implies that it's a bug.  :-)

A real example of a bug is SunOS, where /etc/motd comes up 0666 by default,
instead of 0644.  There's actually a "chmod 666 /etc/motd" in their
/etc/rc.local...  geez.

... Joe

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