FreeBSD showing version number upon login

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Thu Feb 9 12:05:03 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:54:57PM -0500 I heard the voice of
alex, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> The .hushlogin file does remove the Copyright msg but it also
> removes  the MOTD, Im just surprised there is not a well known easy
> way to remove the version info and  leave the MOTD.

There is.  Take them OUT of the MOTD (so they don't show up), and turn
off update_motd in rc.conf (so they don't get put back).


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd at over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.


More information about the freebsd-current mailing list