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Clock & Message Homes

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From: le@main.lekno.ws (Louis Epstein)
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Subject: Clock & Message Homes
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 00:36:43 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Louis Epstein - Wed, 6 Mar 2024 00:36 UTC

Just where in the system do I find
1)what time zone the system is set to,and why
this is superseded by UTC every time I return
to BSD from Linux and not when I do the opposite,
and
2) the texts that get randomly displayed on login
in between the "motd" and the first prompt?

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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From: sgk@REMOVEtroutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl)
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Subject: Re: Clock & Message Homes
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by: Steven G. Kargl - Wed, 6 Mar 2024 15:37 UTC

On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:36:43 +0000, Louis Epstein wrote:

> Just where in the system do I find
> 1)what time zone the system is set to,and why
> this is superseded by UTC every time I return
> to BSD from Linux and not when I do the opposite,
> and
> 2) the texts that get randomly displayed on login
> in between the "motd" and the first prompt?

% ll -l /etc/localtime
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel - 39 Feb 3 09:32 \
/etc/localtime@ -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

You likely want to use also usr ntp.

--
steve

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From: le@main.lekno.ws (Louis Epstein)
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Subject: Re: Clock & Message Homes
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by: Louis Epstein - Wed, 6 Mar 2024 20:05 UTC

Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
> Just where in the system do I find
> 1)what time zone the system is set to,and why
> this is superseded by UTC every time I return
> to BSD from Linux and not when I do the opposite,
> and

I note that the UEFI bios is already displaying
the UTC time on rebooting after the Linux sojourn
before I select the BSD partition (which is the
default).

> 2) the texts that get randomly displayed on login
> in between the "motd" and the first prompt?
>
> -=-=-
> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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From: le@main.lekno.ws (Louis Epstein)
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Subject: Re: Clock & Message Homes
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 23:30:59 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Louis Epstein - Fri, 8 Mar 2024 23:30 UTC

Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
> Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
>> Just where in the system do I find
>> 1)what time zone the system is set to,and why
>> this is superseded by UTC every time I return
>> to BSD from Linux and not when I do the opposite,
>> and
>
> I note that the UEFI bios is already displaying
> the UTC time on rebooting after the Linux sojourn
> before I select the BSD partition (which is the
> default).

This appears fixed now...
>> 2) the texts that get randomly displayed on login
>> in between the "motd" and the first prompt?

....but just where are all these BSD hints stored en
masse so I can read through them all by choice and
not be at the mercy of which one shows up at any
given login?

>> -=-=-
>> The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
>> at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Subject: Re: Clock & Message Homes
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 09:42:47 -0000 (UTC)
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by: Christian Weisgerber - Sat, 9 Mar 2024 09:42 UTC

On 2024-03-08, Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:

>>> 2) the texts that get randomly displayed on login
>>> in between the "motd" and the first prompt?
>
> ...but just where are all these BSD hints stored en
> masse so I can read through them all by choice and
> not be at the mercy of which one shows up at any
> given login?

That's fortune(6), which is run out of some default ~/.profile or
such.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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From: le@main.lekno.ws (Louis Epstein)
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Subject: Re: Clock & Message Homes
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by: Louis Epstein - Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:12 UTC

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
> On 2024-03-08, Louis Epstein <le@main.lekno.ws> wrote:
>
>>>> 2) the texts that get randomly displayed on login
>>>> in between the "motd" and the first prompt?
>>
>> ...but just where are all these BSD hints stored en
>> masse so I can read through them all by choice and
>> not be at the mercy of which one shows up at any
>> given login?
>
> That's fortune(6), which is run out of some default ~/.profile or
> such.
>

Thank you...man fortune led me to
/usr/share/games/fortune/freebsd-tips
(the only other file in the directory is freebsd-tips.dat).

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.

devel / comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc / Re: Clock & Message Homes

Subject	Author
Clock & Message Homes	Louis Epstein
Re: Clock & Message Homes	Steven G. Kargl
Re: Clock & Message Homes	Louis Epstein
Re: Clock & Message Homes	Louis Epstein
Re: Clock & Message Homes	Christian Weisgerber
Re: Clock & Message Homes	Louis Epstein