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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:

> > 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 prefer the motd as then they receive the message every time they
> login (as root or not) until they get tired of it and modify. ;) I'd
> hate to login as root, not notice the info (not paying attention),
> reboot, and then wonder, "What next?".

That's the point. It's a one time notification. It'd have to be  
sufficiently annoying to catch your attention. Perhaps takes over the  
console for a second, so that you realize there's something there.

> > That's due to cruft building up in our chroot building process. We're
> > not cleaning up after ourselves well enough when we're building our
> > stable chroots. The stable-basesystem-0.16 tarball is actually missing
> > shadow! And it's got the Xen interfaces in there, which shouldn't be
> > there as well.
>
> I've only been running `cleanse` on these machines and then emptying
> /var/cache/sorcery and /var/spool/sorcery before generating.

Yeah, we need to come up with a canned set of actions. perhaps a spell  
or a script that can make sure our chroots are clean.
First thing: emptying out that persistent.net.rules file or whatever  
it's called. And verifying that all the appropriate spells are  
installed. Althouhg, I would've thought cleanse would be doing that :/

> > lessee if horde can generate a valid pgp signature today...
>
> Let me know how that goes! My work blocks IMAPS, so it's HORDE
> interface for me. There is anubis, but HORDE should already take care
> of this for us.

Horde seems to be hit or miss. My work blocks anything that's not http  
so I understand the issue. It's damn irritating.


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David Kowis
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