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 shellmodule] 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…system. FILES /etc/issue SEE ALSO motd (5), agetty (8), mingetty