motd not compiled properly or ?

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:57:54PM +1030, Lei Chen wrote:
> I have compiled myself a RELENG_7  stable version of 7 branch.
> 
> I did a fresh install on 7.1_prerelease, and cvsup -g -L 2
> stable-xxx-cvsup-file
> make buildworld, everything goes as it should.
> 
> reboot, mergemaster command shows on file "motd"
> --7.1_PRERELEASE
> ++7??:??:??
> rest of motd is the same
> 
> now, based on the above showed result, I pressed "d" to keep original
> version, because I don't want to have a system message shows 7:??:??:??
> 
> Now my question is, how do I just compile the "motd" in source tree, and
> reinstall just that? Maybe recompile it may make it shows proper version
> string.
> Or if there's a method beside make buildworld again, it takes ages on my
> laptop.

Simply put: you don't have to do anything.

FreeBSD's rc.d system updates the first line of the motd automatically;
see /etc/rc.d/motd.

I highly recommend placing the following into /etc/mergemaster.rc:

# Do not compare template motd to /etc/motd
IGNORE_MOTD=yes

This will cause mergemaster to skip comparing motd, but WILL NOT affect
the use of /etc/rc.d/motd.

Hope this helps.

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