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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 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 tradition-
       ally 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 3.05 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the
       project,  and  information  about  reporting  bugs,  can  be  found   at   http://www.ker-
       nel.org/doc/man-pages/.



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