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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: Why does /etc/rc.local rebuilds /etc/motd ?
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Michael Giegerich (migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de) wrote:
: What's the reason /etc/motd is rebuild every time when rebooting?

So motd will have the current system information, in case this was a reboot
after a kernel build.  If you don't care about this, comment out the lines
that rebuild motd.


	Wes Peters