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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!sun4nl!News.Simplex.NL!Simplex.NL!rob From: rob@Simplex.NL (Rob Simons) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Why does /etc/rc.local rebuilds /etc/motd ? Date: 28 Dec 1994 22:46:03 GMT Organization: Simplex Networking Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3dspru$nne@News.Simplex.NL> References: <D1Fz4z.6s@luva.lb.bawue.de> <3dqhvk$5ej@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: simplex.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : In article <D1Fz4z.6s@luva.lb.bawue.de>, : Michael Giegerich <migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de> wrote: : > : >What's the reason /etc/motd is rebuild every time when : >rebooting? : It's fun. You can remove this if you don't like it. I've got nothing against fun, but was sort of curious at the beginning why it always returned to world-writeable after each reboot. Then I found the lines in the /etc/rc.local file, and understood how that came to be. The only question I still have is why .. Btw, is that fixed in 2.0 now ? - Rob. -- /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ /* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ /* ---------- | ----------- | rob@MacBugs.simplex.nl *\ /* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\