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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Martin Spitzbarth wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:06:26 -0600 David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> The user is completely left alone after logging in as root. I
>>>> suggest we place some lines in /etc/motd to tell the user about
>>>> setting up the network using netconf, updating sorcery and the
>>>> grimoires, setting sorcery options and doing a sorcery rebuild.
>>> We're working on this. There's some concern over what exactly would
>>> be the best way to handle this. It will be resolved for stable
>>> though.
>> I mentioned a onetime run script with a README file in /root
>> It'd run the first time root logs in. Display that there's a README  
>> file (or maybe less the README for them, but that's kinda annoying)
>>
> 
> I stronlgy object to the onetime run idea in the strict one time sense.
> I've had too many linux installations fail after the first boot due to
> various reasons (wrong kernel parameters, fancy stuff I changed during
> install that I screwed up, ...). I like the idea that the message goes
> away by its own, but I suggest a grace period of some days or some
> number of reboots instead of a now-or-never chance.

Well, it'd be part of root's .bashrc. So you'd only see it upon first
successful bootup. And the README will remain, just you won't be told
about it.

> 
> I like Remko's idea with the manpages, so we could place something
> like "echo Type in 'man afterboot' for further instruction or edit
> ~/.bash_login to remove this message." into root's .bash_login. That
> one line doesn't use up much screen estate while at the same time it
> gives enough information to get started.
> 

That'd work too, but that's basically the same thing I'm saying.
Slightly different implementation, however.


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