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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), |
| 2 | .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 | |
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24 | .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:08:16 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> |
| 25 | .\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | |
| 26 | .TH MOTD 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
| 27 | .SH NAME | |
| 28 | motd \- message of the day | |
| 29 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| c13182ef | 30 | The contents of \fI/etc/motd\fP are displayed by |
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31 | .BR login (1) |
| 32 | after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell. | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file | |
| 35 | has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk | |
| 36 | space than mail to all users). | |
| 37 | .SH FILES | |
| 38 | /etc/motd | |
| 39 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 40 | .BR login (1), | |
| 41 | .BR issue (5) |