Comments on: Editing “message of the day” – motd http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/ Web Engineering Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:16:52 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bodybuil http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-5733 Bodybuil Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:17:51 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-5733 I found many interesting in this site. Thank you a lot I found many interesting in this site. Thank you a lot

]]> By: Benedikt http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Benedikt Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:04:02 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-18 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 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

]]> By: mk_michael http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-17 mk_michael Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:01:20 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-17 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. 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.

]]> By: Login screen for my SAP server | webdesign joomla online business marketing geeks und das web 2.0 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Login screen for my SAP server | webdesign joomla online business marketing geeks und das web 2.0 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:42:56 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-16 [...] to Michael I now have a very nice welcome screen, when I (or my co-developers) login to our SAP development [...] [...] to Michael I now have a very nice welcome screen, when I (or my co-developers) login to our SAP development [...]

]]> By: nicole@younic http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-15 nicole@younic Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:33:28 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-15 I actually found a perfect ascii, too: http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/demon.txt :-) I actually found a perfect ascii, too:
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/def/demon.txt
:-)

]]> By: nicole@younic http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-14 nicole@younic Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:31:19 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-14 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!! 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!!

]]> By: nicole@younic http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-13 nicole@younic Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:27:41 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-13 => 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. => 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.

]]> By: nicole@younic http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/linuxbasics/editing-message-of-the-day-motd/comment-page-1/#comment-11 nicole@younic Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:51:57 +0000 http://www.michael-kolb.co.uk/?p=65#comment-11 I like the robot! It'sooooo cute :-) I like the robot! It’sooooo cute :-)

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