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Package: manpages
Version: 2.39-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Dear Joey,
I realised that /etc/motd is just a symlink in Etch. As it seems that
/etc/motd or /etc/motd.tail do not belong to any package, I think that
the best place for documenting this is the manpage.
Here is a patch I am proposing to you for this purpose.
Have a nice day,
-- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc64
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
-- no debconf information
--- motd.5.orig 2007-04-15 08:38:34.000000000 +0900
+++ motd.5 2007-04-15 08:54:23.000000000 +0900
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
.\"
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:08:16 1993 by Rik Faith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
+.\" Modified Sun Apr 15 08:39:11 Asia/Tokyo 2007 by Charles Plessy <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
.TH MOTD 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
motd \- message of the day
@@ -33,8 +34,25 @@
The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file
has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk
space than mail to all users).
+
+On Debian systems, \fI/etc/motd\fP is a symbolic link to
+\fI/var/run/motd\fP, which is built by \fI/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh\fP
+by appending the contents of \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP to a line containing
+information about the system. Therefore, permantent changes should be
+made in \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP.
.SH FILES
/etc/motd
+.RS 3n
+Symbolic link to the system message of the day
+.RE
+/var/run/motd
+.RS 3n
+System message of the day file rebuilt at each computer start
+.RE
+/etc/motd.tail
+.RS 3n
+Template fo building the system message of the day
+.RE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR login (1),
.BR issue (5)
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: manpages
Source-Version: 2.44-3
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
manpages-dev_2.44-3_all.deb
to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages-dev_2.44-3_all.deb
manpages_2.44-3.diff.gz
to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.44-3.diff.gz
manpages_2.44-3.dsc
to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.44-3.dsc
manpages_2.44-3_all.deb
to pool/main/m/manpages/manpages_2.44-3_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated manpages package)
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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:19:15 +0200
Source: manpages
Binary: manpages manpages-dev
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.44-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
manpages - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 419337
Changes:
manpages (2.44-3) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New motd.tail(5) by Charles Plessy (closes: Bug#419337)
Files:
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b25557521fea7e2c05b1f7ad93a8813a 49262 doc - manpages_2.44-3.diff.gz
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manpages-dev_2.44-3_all.deb
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