debian man page for motd

Query: motd

OS: debian

Section: 5

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MOTD(5) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   MOTD(5)

NAME
motd - message of the day
DESCRIPTION
The contents of /etc/motd are displayed by pam_motd(8) after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell. The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk space than mail to all users). On Debian GNU/Linux, the content of /run/motd.dynamic is also displayed. This file is generated by /etc/init.d/motd at boot.
FILES
/etc/motd /run/motd.dynamic /etc/init.d/motd
SEE ALSO
login(1), issue(5) pam_motd(8)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 1992-12-29 MOTD(5)
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