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Re: motd - changes are lost during reboot

Rocco Stanzione
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:32:11 -0700

On Friday 13 October 2006 15:20, Ingo Lantschner wrote:
> Hello,
> a small but anoying problem, which I could not solve yet: Changes in /
> etc/motd are lost during reboot. Why? How can I customize motd?
>
> TIA for any tipps! Ingo.
> --
> Ingo Lantschner
> Vienna/Austria
> Mob (+43-664) 143 84 18

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -r motd /etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:        # Update motd
/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:        uname -snrvm > /var/run/motd
/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh:        [ -f /etc/motd.tail ] && cat /etc/motd.tail 
>> /var/run/motd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/motd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep  6 13:09 /etc/motd -> /var/run/motd

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