On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, Dan Mack wrote:
I've been away for a while and missed the change and complexity added to
/etc/motd. I figured it out but I was led astray by not knowing that it was
converted into a service that only runs at boot time. If you just follow the
instructions in the template file, you will nothing changes.
As a suggestion, maybe change this line in the /etc/motd.template file:
Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement.
to:
Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement and
reboot or manually restart the motd service in /etc/rc.d/motd as in:
/etc/rc.d/motd restart
and also add an entry to the man page for motd.
This was on: FreeBSD boxolox 13.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT #1
r366790: Sat Oct 17 08:57:56 CDT 2020
Instead of just complaining, I've attached a diff of a proposed
fix. Diff against base/head is here fwiw:
https://github.com/danmack/freebsd/tree/motd-doc-fix
Dan
diff --git a/share/man/man5/motd.5 b/share/man/man5/motd.5
index 9feb0479b92..457c69da6b6 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/motd.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/motd.5
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@ prepended to
and the contents are written to
.Pa /var/run/motd .
.Pp
+.Pa /var/run/motd
+can be updated without a system reboot by manually restarting the
+motd service after updating
+.Pa /etc/motd.template:
+.Bd -literal -offset -ident
+service motd restart
+.Ed
+.Pp
Individual users may suppress the display of this file by
creating a file named
.Dq Pa .hushlogin
diff --git a/usr.bin/login/motd.template b/usr.bin/login/motd.template
index 80d79095980..9973850c683 100644
--- a/usr.bin/login/motd.template
+++ b/usr.bin/login/motd.template
@@ -17,4 +17,5 @@ Please include that output and any error messages when
posting questions.
Introduction to manual pages: man man
FreeBSD directory layout: man hier
-Edit /etc/motd.template to change this login announcement.
+To change this login announcement, edit /etc/motd.template and either
+reboot or restart the motd service in /etc/rc.d/motd.
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