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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Sysadmin LOGIN msgs for all users Post 27625 by RTM on Wednesday 4th of September 2002 12:03:45 PM
Old 09-04-2002
I don't believe you can put a script into the /etc/motd but you could have a cron job running updating MOTD every minute, hour, ....

Otherwise, you can add something to the 'system' login script to show another message

Check out the man page on login - it will give you the steps done for each login - you will find that it runs either /etc/profile or /etc/.login (it matters which shell is being used). You could possibly run something from there.
 

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MOTD.TAIL(5)						   Debian Administrator's Manual					      MOTD.TAIL(5)

NAME
motd.tail - Template for building the system message of the day DESCRIPTION
On Debian systems, the system message of the day is rebuilt at each startup, in order to display an accurate information. /etc/motd.tail is the file to edit permanent changes to the message of the day. OVERVIEW
The initiation script /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh prepends a line containing information about the system to /etc/motd.tail and stores the resulting file in /var/run/motd. /etc/motd is a symbolic link to /var/run/motd. This is done to prevent changes to /etc as the system can not assume /etc to be writable. Changes to /etc/motd effectively end up in a file under /var/run which will be regenerated upon reboot. A symbolic link to a different file, such as /etc/motd.static disables this behaviour. FILES
/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh The initiation script which builds /var/run/motd /etc/motd Symbolic link to the system message of the day at /var/run/motd /etc/motd.tail Template for building the system message of the day /var/run/motd System message of the day file rebuilt at each computer start SEE ALSO
login(1), issue(5), motd(5). Debian 2007-04-28 MOTD.TAIL(5)
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