On 04/06/2017 07:09 AM, Dan wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2017, Dan wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Well, thanks to Pat's swift production of a new version of
> fermilab-conf_doe-banner-console (followed by another cycle of yum
> install and yum remove by me), the text has now been deleted from
> /etc/motd.
>
> Unfortunately, the threatening-sounding message is still appearing at
> boot time.  Digging a little deeper, I think this may be because
>
> yum install fermilab-conf_doe-banner-login-screen
>
> writes the relevant text into
> </usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled>, and a subsequent
>
> yum remove fermilab-conf_doe-banner-login-screen
>
> doesn't remove the text from that file.  Pat, I think you're the
> maintainer of that package too, right?  Any chance of a similar fix
> there, please?
>

I'll take a look!

Pat