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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Cp files into a directory Post 302952683 by featheredfrog on Thursday 20th of August 2015 10:20:32 PM
Old 08-20-2015
No, you don't need your own etc directory, you should again get rid of it: /etc is a top-system-level directory where control files are kept, like hosts (the other machines on your network that your machine knows about) and group (a list of groups of users used for permissions and other things)

The original exercise was to copy files from /etc (top level dir) into ~/test (subdirectory to your home directory).

If you did succeed with hosts and groups, you succeeded - not every machine has a /etc/motd file, and on ubuntu it's even more complex and may purposely not be there, for arcane reasons. (How did he know I was running ubuntu?) Smilie
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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)
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