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From: Julian Stacey <jhs@berklix.com>
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Subject: /etc/motd overflows 24 lines after login from live media
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>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 <jhs@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 jhs@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 questions@FreeBSD.org mailing list/to list questions@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:
