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From: wyatt@cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Re: Suppressing the message of the day.
Message-ID: <575@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Date: Tue, 9-Jun-87 10:02:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  9 10:02:35 1987
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> We commented [ the boot-time string search for line to replace in /etc/motd ]
> out, not because it was a time-waster (though it is - I
> just ran it, and it took 36 cpu seconds, according to `time'), but
> because /etc/motd should be the message of the day.  [...]

What? On my Ultrix 1.2 uVax II, it takes 6 secs. Still, it's a waste of
time, but not much to bother with.
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