On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:48:51PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:36:01PM +0200, Joey Schulze a écrit : > > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I was just pointed out on a mailing list that having a motd.tail(5) > > > manpage may be more relevant than putting Debian-specific information > > > in a general manpage. My opinion on this is neutral, but if you want, > > > I can submit such a page (in man or docbook format). > > > > Please provide motd.tail(5) instead (in manpage/roff format, of course) > > since it's a totally Debian specific addition/change. I'll add a note > > to motd(5) then. > > Hi, > > I attached a proposed manpage for motd.tail(5). Some comments.
> .TH MOTD.TAIL 5 2007-04-28 "Debian" "Debian Administrator's Manual" > .SH NAME > motd.tail \- Template for building the system message of the day > .SH DESCRIPTION > On Debian systems, the system message of the day is rebuilt at each > startup, in order to display an accurate s/an // > information. \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP is the file to edit permanent > changes to the message of the day. I would suggest: "Long-term changes to the message of the day can be stored in \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP." > .SH OVERVIEW > The initiation script \fI/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh\fP prepends a line initialization prefixes > containing information about the system to \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP and > stores the resulting file in \fI/var/run/motd\fP. \fI/etc/motd\fP is a But actually, since /etc/motd.tail itself isn't changed: \fI/var/run/motd\fP is created with a single line containing system information, followed by the contents of \fI/etc/motd.tail\fP. > .RS 3n > The initiation script which builds /var/run/motd initialization > .RE > /etc/motd > .RS 3n > Symbolic link to the system message of the day > System message of the day file rebuilt at each computer start Just "each boot", I think. Please also mention that this is Debian specific, either in the main body, or in a new .SH NOTES. Thanks Justin
