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Re: You've got mail - MOTD (final round ;)
After 5 months I have only just read the email and
send the dmesg off.. and that was only because you guys
have been discussing it here:)
Guess I should pay more attention in future:)
'hanging head in shame'
Stephen Martin
At 06:15 AM 12/5/98 -0600, Julian Fondren wrote:
>Here is another account..
>
>Just installed OpenBSD successfuly
>logged in as root
>saw the mail notice
>disabled all networking interfaces
>read the mail notice
>[after configuring computer a little more]
>....
>mailed dmesg
>
>On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Paolo Supino wrote:
>
>> Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 12:45:07 +0200 (IST)
>> From: Paolo Supino <paolo@consonet.com>
>> To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
>> Cc: tech@openbsd.org
>> Subject: You've got mail - MOTD (final round ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Here is a first hand experience from a newbie (I started using obsd a
>> few weeks ago):
>> I installed the OS pretty easily. First login: You have mail. My
>> response: So what! That email is still waiting for me (if my borther
>> didn't erase it yet). I learned about the man page from the mailing list,
>> and since I read the man page my learning curve went sky high!!!
>>
>> motd will "spit" the information if the user wants or not. You should also
>> put a request on emailing dmesg to dmesg@openbsd.org in in motd thus
>> people will actually do it, and maybe have page with the more interesting
>> dmesgs on obsd's website.
>>
>>
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>>
>> Paolo
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>>
>> On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>
>> > > I don't know what to suggest; maybe make the motd say "read
>> > > afterboot(8)" or something that will get someone's attention every time
>> > > they log in until they either nuke /etc/motd, or go read afterboot(8)
>> > > and then nuke /etc/motd :-)
>> >
>> > That's insane.
>> >
>> > The first time you logged in, it says
>> >
>> > You have mail.
>> >
>> > Sorry, but I think that is more than enough.
>> >
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