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    From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 6 00:36:43 2024
    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    this is superseded by UTC every time I return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 Steven G. Kargl@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Wed Mar 6 15:37:49 2024
    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    this is superseded by UTC every time I return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 Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Wed Mar 6 20:05:56 2024
    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    this is superseded by UTC every time I return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.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Fri Mar 8 23:30:59 2024
    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    this is superseded by UTC every time I return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 Christian Weisgerber@21:1/5 to Louis Epstein on Sat Mar 9 09:42:47 2024
    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.

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

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  • From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to Christian Weisgerber on Mon Mar 11 06:12:04 2024
    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.

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