NAME motd - message of the day DESCRIPTION The contents of /etc/motd are displayed ... motd (8) after a successful login but just before it executes the login shellNAME pam_motd - Display the motd file SYNOPSIS pam_motd.so [motd= /path/filename ] [motd_dir= /path/dirname.d ] DESCRIPTION ... motd is a PAM module that can be used to display arb…following configuration items are relevant for login : MOTD_FILE (string) Specifies a ":" delimited list ... directory then displays all files with .motd file extension in version-…module] header) are the global parameters: motd file This parameter allows you to specify ... message of the day" (MOTD) to display to clients on each connect. This usually contain…quiet, -q suppress non-error messages --no-motd suppress daemon-mode MOTD --checksum, -c skip ... useful when invoking rsync from cron. --no-motd This option affects the informatio…file does not exist yet. pam_motd (8) reads this file and shows its contents ... during terminal logins. See motd (5) for details. Consumed by /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/provision.conf, s…system. FILES /etc/issue SEE ALSO motd (5), agetty (8), mingetty