>Number: 158238
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: diff: /etc/motd: Tell people to subscribe questions@ before
>posting.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 23 22:30:12 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Julian H. Stacey
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD fire.js.berklix.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun
2 23:10:13 CEST 2011
[email protected]:/ad6s4/release/8.2-RELEASE/src/sys/amd64/compile/FIRE64.small
amd64
>Description:
diff: /etc/motd: Tell people to subscribe questions@ before posting.
To reduce noise on questions@ somewhat (& as a side effect,
ensure newbies get all replies, (as some respondents just
reply to lists, not to all previous thread participants, &
some newbies might not realise. )
>How-To-Repeat:
Read questions@ archive Subject: freebsd list admins?
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201106202352.24196.rsimmons0
obert Simmons <[email protected]>
"There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to
these lists that keep spamming it periodically"
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20110621074416.58869e66
Jerry <[email protected]>
"Unfortunately, this is an "open" list; ie, anyone subscribed or not
can post. This leads to the inevitable problems that plague this forum."
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201106212203.p5LM3NbI005159
"Julian H. Stacey" <[email protected]>
"I think we should: make questions@ list writable only to subscribers
(if not already); & Edit /usr/src/etc/motd ... Should we send in
a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd eg:"
http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?BANLkTimoY58yWwdHYPrhKBzPQa0CYhxERw
Robert Simmons <[email protected]>
"PR it. Sounds good."
>Fix:
A patch in diff -c format is appended below, & a spare copy here
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/src/gen/etc/motd.REL=ALL.diff
*** 8.2-RELEASE/src/etc/motd Thu Jul 3 08:06:09 2003
--- new/src/etc/motd.new Thu Jun 23 22:58:31 2011
***************
*** 13,21 ****
http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/. If the doc distribution has
been installed, they're also available formatted in /usr/share/doc.
! If you still have a question or problem, please take the output of
! `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email it
! as a question to the [email protected] mailing list. If you are
unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout, please refer to the hier(7)
manual page. If you are not familiar with manual pages, type `man man'.
--- 13,22 ----
http://www.FreeBSD.org/search/. If the doc distribution has
been installed, they're also available formatted in /usr/share/doc.
! If you still have a question or problem, please subscribe (free) via
! http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/subscribe/freebsd-questions then take
! the output of `uname -a', along with any relevant error messages, and email
! it as a question to the [email protected] mailing list. If you are
unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout, please refer to the hier(7)
manual page. If you are not familiar with manual pages, type `man man'.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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