1*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" $NetBSD: motd.5,v 1.2 1994/12/28 18:58:53 glass Exp $ 2*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 3*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" This file is in the public domain. 4*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man5/motd.5,v 1.4.2.1 2001/07/21 09:16:52 schweikh Exp $ 5*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" $DragonFly: src/share/man/man5/motd.5,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:37:00 dillon Exp $ 6*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.\" 7*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dd March 17, 2009 8*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dt MOTD 5 9*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Os 10*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh NAME 11*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm motd 12*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nd file containing message(s) of the day 13*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh DESCRIPTION 14*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe file 15*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pa /etc/motd 16*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinois normally displayed by 17*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr login 1 18*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoafter a user has logged in but before the shell is run. 19*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoIt is generally used for important system-wide announcements. 20*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoDuring system startup, a line containing the kernel version string is 21*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoprepended to this file. 22*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pp 23*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoIndividual users may suppress the display of this file by 24*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinocreating a file named 25*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dq Pa .hushlogin 26*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoin their home directories or through 27*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr login.conf 5 . 28*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh FILES 29*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Bl -tag -width $HOME/.hushlogin -compact 30*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Pa /etc/motd 31*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe message of the day. 32*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Pa $HOME/.hushlogin 33*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoSuppresses output of 34*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Pa /etc/motd . 35*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.El 36*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh EXAMPLES 37*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Bd -literal 38*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoDragonFly 2.3-DEVELOPMENT (GENERIC) #0: Fri Mar 13 04:44:45 PST 2009 39*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino 40*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino/home is full. Please cleanup your directories. 41*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Ed 42*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SEE ALSO 43*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr login 1 , 44*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr login.conf 5 45