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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have created/edited /etc/motd and /etc/issue. At first they did nothing |
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> at all, but I found /etc/login.defs and followed the hint there. |
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> So now it has the line |
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> MOTD_FILE /etc/motd |
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> for instance. But instead of displaying the file on running login as root, |
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> I get |
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> configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify administrator), and |
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> something |
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> similar if I attempt to use /etc/issue. |
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> Looking at /bin/login with strings(1), I find a format string that would |
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> produce this output. |
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> Does anyone know how to correctly enable the message of the day and the |
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> greeting? |
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> Mmmm. I should add that despite these complaints, login is still possible, |
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and what's |
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especially surprising is that the messages are actually displayed. This |
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suggests that |
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I'm not very far from having it right, but /bin/login wants to complain |
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anyway. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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