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diff --git a/man5/motd.5 b/man5/motd.5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..904b0258b --- /dev/null +++ b/man5/motd.5 @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, +.\" USA. +.\" +.\" 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 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +motd \- message of the day +.SH DESCRIPTION +The contents of \fB/etc/motd\fP are displayed by +.BR login (1) +after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell. + +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 +/etc/motd +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR login (1), +.BR issue (5) |