motd service (FreeBSD 13)

[Nathaniel Nigro]

Not really necessary with file permissions, jails, chflags, And kernel
tuning...
On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 2:04 PM Roderick <hruodr at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sun, 8 Aug 2021, Arthur Chance wrote:
>
> >> And for what did now become necessary to generate a motd from a
> template?
> >
> > A wild guess on my part, but maybe this is part of a move to make /etc
> > read only under normal circumstances.
>
> I see. Bad design ist "improved" with worse design that not even solve
> the original problem.
>
> Why the hell the system must prepend a line containing the kernel
> version string during start up?!
>
> It should be left to the andmin to add such line to the file (or not
> add it).
>
> And if the system realy must do it, it may show such a line without
> modyfying motd.
>
> R.
>
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