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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ckd
  3. From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
  4. Subject: Re: Strange MOTD
  5. In-Reply-To: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU's message of Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:28:57 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <CKD.92Nov12220426@loiosh.eff.org>
  7. Sender: usenet@eff.org (NNTP News Poster)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: loiosh.eff.org
  9. Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
  10. References: <joerg.721484101@iiasa> <1992Nov12.175622.18770@tamsun.tamu.edu>
  11.     <TOMA.92Nov12192857@db.TC.Cornell.EDU>
  12. Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 03:04:28 GMT
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  15. Rory> == Rory Toma <toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU> 
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  17.  Rory> Perhaps deleting this [chmod 666 /etc/motd in /etc/rc.local], and
  18.  Rory> doing a chmod 400 on /etc/motd would keep /etc/mtab out?
  19.  
  20. Perhaps.  It also would tend to defeat the purpose of the motd :)
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  22. Christopher K. Davis      | ``Usenet seems to run much like the Kif (or,
  23. <ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
  24. System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
  25. +1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
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