Quite a few ways of doing it - first you need to know what works in your environment as far as getting the file there with the least amount of typing.
Create your new motd - then either ftp, rcp, scp, or some other way of getting the file to all the servers (push it directly onto the old /etc/motd OR move the original to motd.old and then push your new file). Since the motd isn't needed for booting, you could just overwrite it.
Create a file with the server names and do a shell script that loops through doing the ftp/rcp/scp to each server:
Hie.
Im having a problem editing the motd ( message of the day ). I tried to edit the file /etc/motd but its end up with nothing. I find out the directory /etc/motd is in rw- r - r i changed it to executable rwxw-rw-r but having same thing no changes in the motd.
Anyone having any idea how to... (3 Replies)
Anyone know how to change the location of the MOTD file from the default /etc/motd?
An annoying person with root access has found out how to edit the file and change my MOTDs.
Help me. (14 Replies)
Hello all,
I'm looking for a way to have motd display something different when users log in based on what groups they belong to. I'm network administratinng at a college and professors would like to have different posts come up to students when they log in based on the different classes they are... (1 Reply)
Hi
I do get the message of the day upon logging in to my machine(Solaris 9). I do NOT have a .hushlogin file in my home directory.
Any ideas
:-) (7 Replies)
Does anyone know how to get the IP Address of the connecting client to apear in the MOTD I am new to linux and I was wondering if this was possible thanks in advance. :D :confused: :D (4 Replies)
In which login startup script is the motd displayed?
Red Hat 4AS
As I understand it, upon login (bash) it hits
/etc/profile
~/.bash_profile
~/.bash_login
~/.profile
I went through the scripts and the associated scripts (/etc/profile.d/*.sh) but don't see where it's being displayed... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
Wish to check which setting is set to display the MOTD AFTER successful password verification. I am logging in via a 3rd party ssh tool tectia.
Eg.
Login:
password:
OS Prompt>
Thanks
Eugene (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 desktop and whenever I login to the xterm terminal through ssh, I am getting the following motd (message of the day) info.
Linux desktop 2.6.32-28-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 10 21:21:01 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Welcome to Ubuntu!
*... (1 Reply)
Hello,
which is the default motd for the different following different OS versions?
RHEL: has no default motd?
HP-UX: no motd but cat /etc/copyright in /etc/profile:
(c)Copyright 1983-2003 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
(c)Copyright 1979, 1980, 1983, 1985-1993 The Regents of the... (2 Replies)
If I have /etc/motd, he is file or directory?
I saw that some call them folders and files others... Which option is better?
I knew that being a director, but many told me not.
Thank you! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mescu
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wordexp
WORDEXP(3) BSD Library Functions Manual WORDEXP(3)NAME
wordexp -- perform shell-style word expansions
SYNOPSIS
#include <wordexp.h>
int
wordexp(const char *restrict words, wordexp_t *restrict pwordexp, int flags);
void
wordfree(wordexp_t *pwordexp);
DESCRIPTION
The wordexp() function performs shell-style word expansion on words. It places the list of words into the we_wordv member of pwordexp and
the number of words into we_wordc.
The flags argument (see BUGS) is the bitwise inclusive OR of any of the following constants:
WRDE_APPEND Append the words to those generated by a previous call to wordexp().
WRDE_DOOFS As many NULL pointers as are specified by the we_offs member of pwordexp are added to the front of we_wordv.
WRDE_NOCMD Disallow command substitution in words. See the note in BUGS before using this.
WRDE_REUSE The pwordexp argument was passed to a previous successful call to wordexp() but has not been passed to wordfree(). The imple-
mentation may reuse the space allocated to it.
WRDE_SHOWERR Do not redirect shell error messages to /dev/null.
WRDE_UNDEF Report error on an attempt to expand an undefined shell variable.
The wordexp_t structure is defined in <wordexp.h> as:
typedef struct {
size_t we_wordc; /* count of words matched */
char **we_wordv; /* pointer to list of words */
size_t we_offs; /* slots to reserve in we_wordv */
} wordexp_t;
The wordfree() function frees the memory allocated by wordexp().
RETURN VALUES
The wordexp() function returns zero if successful, otherwise it returns one of the following error codes:
WRDE_BADCHAR The words argument contains one of the following unquoted characters: <newline>, '|', '&', ';', '<', '>', '(', ')', '{', '}'.
WRDE_BADVAL An attempt was made to expand an undefined shell variable and WRDE_UNDEF is set in flags.
WRDE_CMDSUB An attempt was made to use command substitution and WRDE_NOCMD is set in flags.
WRDE_NOSPACE Not enough memory to store the result.
WRDE_SYNTAX Shell syntax error in words.
The wordfree() function returns no value.
EXAMPLES
Invoke the editor on all .c files in the current directory and /etc/motd (error checking omitted):
wordexp_t pwordexp;
wordexp("${EDITOR:-vi} *.c /etc/motd", &pwordexp, 0);
execvp(pwordexp->we_wordv[0], pwordexp->we_wordv);
SEE ALSO sh(1), fnmatch(3), glob(3), popen(3), system(3)BUGS
This version of wordexp() ignores the value of the flags argument.
COPYRIGHT
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Portions of this software were developed by the Unidata Program at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.
BSD December 27, 2002 BSD