Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Can't set LiveCD MOTD

[James Dio]

I've noticed similar problems.

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 11:22 -0400, Ryan Lynch wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:10:01 -0400
> Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 17:51 -0400, Ryan Lynch wrote:
> > > I'm building a livecd for a project I'm working on, and I'm trying to use a custom MOTD.  I'm using the default runscript, and I've added this line to my stage 2 specfile:
> > > 	livecd/motd: /root/livecd/motd.txt
> > > However, each time I create an ISO, /etc/motd is blank.  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Well, the code from livecd/runscript/default-runscript.sh responsible
> > for this little snippet is:
> >
> >         # move over the motd (if applicable)
> >         if [ -n "${clst_livecd_motd}" ]
> >         then
> >             cp -a ${clst_livecd_motd} ${clst_chroot_path}/etc/motd
> >         else
> >             ...
> >         fi
> >
> > It should be copying your file verbatim.
> >
> > Are you seeing any error messages?
> >
> > --
> > Chris Gianelloni
> > Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
> > Games - Developer
> > Gentoo Linux
> I don't see any error messages at all.  In fact I even tried going into the runscript, commenting out that section and just putting in "cp -a /root/livecd/motd.txt ${clst_chroot_path}/etc/motd", and I stll came up with a blank motd.  Anyway, I'll try it out with this new version of catalyst, and see if anything is different.
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