linux man page for motd

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

NAME
       motd - message of the day

DESCRIPTION
       The contents of /etc/motd are displayed by login(1) 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 this file is a symbolic link pointing to /var/run.  The contents of this file are regenerated upon  every  system  boot
       based on the contents of /etc/motd.tail.

FILES
       /etc/motd
       /etc/motd.tail

SEE ALSO
       login(1), motd.tail(5), issue(5)

COLOPHON
       This  page is part of release 3.27 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)