On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +0000, Vittorio wrote: > > Later on, while rebooting the system, a hard-disk error popped up > (before mounting the filesystem) halting the PC irremediably; > rebooting again, debian, shifting to single user, warned that the > filesystem had to be fsck'ed. I did it so answering 'yes' to the many > requests of fixing the corrupted clusters. > > This is the reason why in the messed up /etc/motd (many thanks to > Aquila who privately gave me the right hint!) I now find this strange > message. > > Now my question is: > > Where, in what package can I find the correct /etc/motd file?
apropos motd apt-cache search motd dpkg -S motd /etc/motd is dumped to stdout when a user logs in. there are some processes (during system boot? maybe?) that add the standard Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown line at the top of the file, so you might want to leave some blank \n at the top... -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #15 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Is there a good place to learn snarky PERL TECHNIQUES? One of my favorites is http://webtechniques.com, where Randall Schwartz contributes a monthly sample, explaining line-by-line what his code does, and why. (Look under "Programming with Perl" in the archives.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...