Mon, 21 Nov 2016 18:41:10 +0100 Kamil Cholewiński
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, trondd wrote:
> > If you want the MOTD to be aimed at users who may not have much Unix
> > knowledge yet, then the sysadmin can change it to whatever makes sense
for
> > their environment.
>
> Consider the first-time user ex
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, trondd wrote:
> If you want the MOTD to be aimed at users who may not have much Unix
> knowledge yet, then the sysadmin can change it to whatever makes sense for
> their environment.
Consider the first-time user experience for a person that just installed
OpenBSD on their own
On Mon, November 21, 2016 12:07 pm, Kenneth Gober wrote:
>
> If a novice user doesn't know about the "help" command
Who is this MOTD for? The default text seems to be aimed at sysadmins who
should already have some knowledge of Unix and how to find man pages and
such, but may not know how to subm
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Gareth Nelson wrote:
> Filling the terminal isn't really a major issue though is it?
> Terminals do scroll after all
Framebuffer consoles don't. Although they're a bit larger than 80x24
so it matters less.
If a novice user doesn't know about the "help" command,
Filling the terminal isn't really a major issue though is it?
Terminals do scroll after all
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On 2016-11-19 16:43, Stuart Henderson wrote:
To even get to the point of reading motd, a new user is going to already need
to have found documentation.
I can think of several examples where that's not true.
Filling 2/3 of an 80x24 terminal at login by default
seems quite a lot especially when
On 2016-11-19, Chad Dougherty wrote:
> I've been using OpenBSD since version 2.3 (pmax) and I've never felt
> like the default motd instills in users the appropriate level of
> confidence in the system. "What, I'm just logging in and they're
> already telling me how to report and fix bugs? Bu
On 19 Nov 2016, Chad Dougherty wrote:
> Our developers have spent countless hours improving these
> man pages so that they are clear and precise so please read them
> carefully.
For what it's worth, I do applaud this pointer to the documentation.
There are many questions I've not sent to this lis
I've been using OpenBSD since version 2.3 (pmax) and I've never felt
like the default motd instills in users the appropriate level of
confidence in the system. "What, I'm just logging in and they're
already telling me how to report and fix bugs? Bummer, man!"
We can do better. TREMENDOUSLY
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