The message of the day is a nice thing to show informations to a user, who is connecting via console. You can put funny ascii figures there, or important informations and how-to’s.
The message will be shown prompltly after authentification:
To get these basic messages, just put it into /etc/motd (and in /etc/motd.tail for Debian and Ubuntu). For example the /etc/motd:
_______________________________________________________
WELCOME TO LOCALHOST
[localhost.org] FILE SERVER
To start or stop fileserver:
/etc/init.d/nfsd start/stop
Finding ascii art at:
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/index2.shtml
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/demon.txt
Bodybuil
October 11th, 2009
I found many interesting in this site. Thank you a lot
Benedikt
December 4th, 2008
Installing fortune and cowsay as well as putting something like this into .bashrc (or whatever your shell includes at startup) is fun too:
fortune | cowsay -W 60
mk_michael
December 4th, 2008
In SuSE you need to edit the /etc/motd file. The .tail is necessary for ubuntu and debian – otherwise the message is lost after rebooting.
Thankx for link, I’ve updated the post.
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December 4th, 2008
[...] to Michael I now have a very nice welcome screen, when I (or my co-developers) login to our SAP development [...]
nicole@younic
December 4th, 2008
I actually found a perfect ascii, too:
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/demon.txt
nicole@younic
December 4th, 2008
Oh! Sorry for disturbing you again: It just got it working with editing only the motd file
No motd.tail file necessary! Now I have a nice login screen on my evil sap development server. Thanks!!
nicole@younic
December 4th, 2008
=> I created the /etc/motd.tail file and inserted the code that I want to show up after being successfully logged in but it didn’t work
Do I have to create/modify the /etc/motd file,too? I’m running suse novell.
nicole@younic
December 1st, 2008
I like the robot! It’sooooo cute