>Number: 177229
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /etc/motd overflows 24 lines after login from live media
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 22 11:20:01 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Julian Stacey <j...@berklix.com>
>Release: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD blak.js.berklix.net 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Feb
26 15:21:57 CET 2013 j...@lapr.js.berklix.net:/sys/amd64/compile/BLAK.small
amd64
>Description:
/etc/motd overflows 24 lines after login from live media
>How-To-Repeat:
Boot off live media or simulate with:
cp /usr/src/etc/motd /etc/motd
xterm -geometry 80x24
rlogin localhost
>Fix:
Discard all blank lines (except first, needed for script).
Whoever bloated this file, probably in a long xterm, forgot
- 80x24 boot terminals,
- emitting surplus blank lines prevents seeing:
- trailing errors/info from boot sequence,
- version from top line, confirming
which system/ media version we'd booted
Strip junk blank lines. While there
also shrink flabby verbose text throughout, eg
Old:
If you are unfamiliar with FreeBSD's directory layout,
please refer to the hier(7) manual page.
New:
If unfamiliar with directories type: man hier.
More examples:
/please take the output/take the output/
/email it/mail it/
/to the questi...@freebsd.org mailing list/to list questi...@freebsd.org/
/If you are not familiar with manual pages/If not familiar with manual/
/Welcome to FreeBSD!/Welcome to FreeBSD! From /etc/motd/
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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