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 tradition‐
       ally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk space than mail to all users).

       On  Debian  GNU/Linux, dynamic content configured at /etc/pam.d/login is also displayed by
       pam_exec.

FILES
       /etc/motd
       /etc/pam.d/login

SEE ALSO
       login(1), issue(5), pam_motd(8)

COLOPHON
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Linux                                       1992-12-29                                    MOTD(5)