svn commit: r350184 - in head: libexec/rc/rc.d release/picobsd/tinyware/login share/man/man5 usr.bin/login

[Conrad Meyer]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 3:52 AM Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 20 Jul 2019, at 22:56, Conrad Meyer <cem at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Author: cem
> > Date: Sat Jul 20 20:56:31 2019
> > New Revision: 350184
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/350184
> >
> > Log:
> >  motd: Generate from template to /var/run
>
> And the "why?" is probably: "to avoid writing in /etc"?

Yep.  I could have done a better job of summarizing the issues brought
up in discussion in response to r349256.  Templated formatting works
for both ends: syncs and other writes are mostly elided, and the
possibility of corrupting the source template is removed.

Cheers,
Conrad