01-01-2008
Thanks to all who tried to help,
Basically I need to find out whether the program is running under RedHat 2.1 3.0 or 4.0 . This information is not available in uname. Parsing the information from the release or motd file is something I wanted to avoid.
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pam_motd
PAM_MOTD(8) Linux-PAM Manual PAM_MOTD(8)
NAME
pam_motd - Display the motd file
SYNOPSIS
pam_motd.so [motd=/path/filename]
DESCRIPTION
pam_motd is a PAM module that can be used to display arbitrary motd (message of the day) files after a successful login. By default the
/etc/motd file is shown. The message size is limited to 64KB.
OPTIONS
motd=/path/filename
The /path/filename file is displayed as message of the day.
noupdate
Don't run the scripts in /etc/update-motd.d to refresh the motd file.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
Only the session module type is provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_IGNORE
This is the only return value of this module.
EXAMPLES
The suggested usage for /etc/pam.d/login is:
session optional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd
SEE ALSO
motd(5), pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7), update-motd(5)
AUTHOR
pam_motd was written by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>.
Linux-PAM Manual 09/19/2013 PAM_MOTD(8)