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I guess the root confusion is whether or not you expected the equivalent of echo "foo" > /etc/motd to replace the symlink with a new file containing "foo", or n
by unwind 15y ago
I guess the root confusion is whether or not you expected the equivalent of echo "foo" > /etc/motd to replace the symlink with a new file containing "foo", or not.
Or if the symlink semantics just weren't something you considered at this point, which lead you to keep hunting.
- baughj 15y agoThe post is more about having the reasonable expectation that editing /etc/motd is sufficient to change the motd. It isn't. It's not that I didn't notice it's a symlink, or that I couldn't have just removed the symlink. The issue is more that a reasonable expectation unfolds exponentially into (what I consider to be) a surprising amount of ridiculousness. That is the point of the rabbit hole post.