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- From: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Strange MOTD
- Message-ID: <TOMA.92Nov12192857@db.TC.Cornell.EDU>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 00:28:57 GMT
- Article-I.D.: db.TOMA.92Nov12192857
- References: <joerg.721484101@iiasa> <1992Nov12.175622.18770@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Sender: news@tc.cornell.edu
- Organization: Not bloody likely around here!
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- In-Reply-To: Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:56:22 GMT
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- In article 721484101@iiasa, joerg@iiasa.ac.at (Joerg MESSER) writes:
- > I recently found the following strangeness in the /etc/motd
- >file on one of our machines. Does anyone know it all means?
- > [contents of motd deleted]
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- Perhaps, on a related note: has anyone noticed that /etc/rc.local does
- a 'chmod 666 /etc/motd'? Nice move, Sun. I definitely want joe_random_user
- to write funny little login messages on motd....
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- - Steve Johnson, Systems Manager, Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
- Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu
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- Perhaps deleting this, and doing a chmod 400 on /etc/motd would keep
- /etc/mtab out?
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- --
- toma@tc.cornell.edu - Rory Toma
-
- Opinionated and tunnel-visioned? Darn right. But then, my employer really
- doesn't know what I'm talking about anyway...
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