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Mon, 3 Apr 2017 10:17:25 -0500
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Hi Dan,

Thanks for the report.  I own this package and I'll see about getting it 
fixed.

Pat

On 04/02/2017 11:22 AM, Dan wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I installed SL7.3 a few weeks ago - thanks for a great distro.
>
> However, I've discovered the following behaviour which I think
> constitutes a bug:
>
> Yesterday, I accidentally (as part of a more general yum install
> invocation with some wildcards in it) ran:
>
> yum install fermilab-conf_doe-banner-console
>
> This wrote a passage of text to /etc/motd, causing a vaguely
> threatening message, purporting to constitute a legally-binding
> contract, to appear on screen at boot time.
>
> However, subsequently running
>
> yum remove fermilab-conf_doe-banner-console
>
> does not remove the passage of text from /etc/motd, and does not stop
> the message from appearing at boot time.
>
> Is there some sort of upstream bugzilla to which someone can pass this
> on, please?

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