I am setting a customized MOTD, however after 24 hrs, it reverts back to the default MOTD.
I noticed that it is a softlink
Code:
cmmiller@ladytron:/etc$ ls -al | grep motd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2009-07-05 10:47 motd -> /var/run/motd
cmmiller@ladytron:/etc$
And I'm making the change to /var/run/motd, however it keeps changing.
When Lucid Lynx came out I did a clean install on my laptop by burning an iso. Unfortunately, I got an annoying bug in which the image would always be wiggly (wavy) in the external monitor. In an attempt to fix the issue, I tried to installed Ati's restricted drivers. Unfortunately, my graphics card (Radeon x1200) isn't supported by them on Ubuntu 10.04, and trying to install it anyway only made things worse.
Right now, I just want it to be back to what it was when I first installed Lucid. Following the instructions on this page, I have already removed the fglrx drivers, and I think I installed the open-source driver. However, I can tell that things are not the way they were when I first installed. By going in "Main menu > System > Preferences > Monitors" I get the usual menu to configure the monitors, except I can't actually configure anything.
There's only one monitor (listed as Unknown), and the system doesn't let me change any of the settings (such as resolution or frequency). The external monitor is showing the same output as the laptop monitor, and doesn't get recognized by the system. I just want to use the exact graphics drivers that came installed in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. But I don't want to do a clean install.
Is there a way to revert to default permissions using chmod, for root filesystem? As root I accidentally chmod'd / to 755, luckily this is a dev server and not production so its not critical to fix for me, just wondering though....
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I have been trying to get rid of the boring motd when ssh-ing into the machine. I have sudo vim-ed the /etc/motd file to no avail.
Even if I add a motd.tail tail file with my content. I still get the boring and verbose:
Quote:
Linux barney 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10
Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: [URL]
How do I get rid of this?
I applied some changed to the MOTD in /etc/update-motd (including removing the canonical mention in ./python2.6/dist-packages/landscape/sysinfo/landscapelink.py). After updating the system I found that all my changes had been deleted without any warning. Is there a way around this nonsense?
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In trying to get it to do this, I did a "apt-get install update-motd" in which it proceeded to do this, but then after the installation, I get:
"update-motd: command not found".
What did I do, how can I manually update/create the /var/run/motd file?
I am trying to change the motd "message of the day" on my Ubuntu server 10.10,
But when i do sudo vi /etc/motd...
i can change the text here, but as soon as I save and exit this file. It changes itself straight back.
ive done countless google searches and forum searches with all the same results all the time. Is there anyone who can tell me what file to edit in order to display? Ive tried editing the /etc/motd file and no luck. I tried alot of other stuff too.
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Code:
Linux zeus 2.6.35-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 22:14:14 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10
[code]....
I know this is somewhat lame, but I remember back in college the MOTD on some of the systems was a random quote. I always wanted to do that. It seemed really trivial, but still neat and clever.
I searched a bit and don't see anything built-in for CentOS, so I was considering writing a Perl script to parse the RSS feed from a quotes site, then update /etc/motd with a random quote from the feed. This would nearly guarantee I could have this on any distro with identical results. Does anyone know of anything that already exists? Is anyone interested in using a script that I write to have the MOTD updated with random quotes themselves, or am I the only one? I'm perfectly willing to share the result when I'm finished.
I want to display motd after entering username but before entering password. Is it possible?
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Script
Code:
#!/bin/bash
[code]....
When i tried to log in, i get blank screen on the login page, even the src/configtest.php This can be solved by reverting whatever was edited for the motd option to its original paramater. anyone experienced this before and found a solution? The only reason for me to use php 5.2 is to install roundcube alongside squirrelmail. Using: centos 5.5 32-bit, squirrelmail 1.4.8, php 5.2
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Updating packages lists
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[code]....
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[URL]
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I recently reinstalled using the latest "respin" CD ISO. Before that, I had other problems with 10.04, but X and fglrx worked perfectly.
Now, X always comes up in 1600x1200 instead of the monitor native 1920x1200. I am still using the same on-board Radeon 4200. Supposedly this display adapter is very well supported by Linux???
I did an aticonfig --initial as suggested in the Known Lucid Lynx issues/bugs with workarounds thread, but when I restarted X I got a black screen, and when I rebooted, even though xorg.conf now says
Code:
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
The system still comes up in 1600x1200. Note it is on DVI and I never touched the hardware or put a bad cable on it since it was working with the first install of 10.04.
When I go into Catalyst Control Center, Display Manager, Display Properties tab, the highest resolution available is 1600x1200. I hand-edited X11 and restarted and ran for a while in 1920x1200, but that no longer works. Now I just get a black screen whenever I restart X, and it always starts in 1600x1200.
How do I convince fglrx that I really have a 1920x1200 monitor? (VP2330wb). It is really very blurry in 1600x1200.
EDIT: Ran get-edid, got:
Code:
get-edid: get-edid version 2.0.0
Performing real mode VBE call
Interrupt 0x10 ax=0x4f00 bx=0x0 cx=0x0
Function supported
[Code]....
I just change the theme to plymouth and also apply this command:
sudo echo FRAMEBUFFER=y > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
sudo update-initramfs -u
I know that it made the boot time much longer and now I want to undo/revert the changes that I've made.
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