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this is superseded by UTC every time I return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?

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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this is superseded by UTC every time I return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.

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steve

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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this is superseded by UTC every time I return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?

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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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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this is superseded by UTC every time I return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?

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

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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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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).

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