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diff --git a/man/man5/motd.5 b/man/man5/motd.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0263aca8c --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man5/motd.5 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), +.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:08:16 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> +.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> +.TH motd 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +motd \- message of the day +.SH DESCRIPTION +The contents of +.I /etc/motd +are displayed by +.BR login (1) +after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell. +.P +The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file +has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk +space than mail to all users). +.SH FILES +.I /etc/motd +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR login (1), +.BR issue (5) |