update-motd(1)
NAME
update-motd - Automatically generate the message-of-the-day (MOTD)
SYNOPSIS
update-motd
DESCRIPTION
update-motd is a script that will dynamically print a message-of-theday according to the output of scripts installed by the administrator
in /etc/update-motd.d.
update-motd is usually installed in /etc/profile.d, where it executes
on login.
FILES
/etc/update-motd.d/, /etc/motd.tail
AUTHOR
Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
LICENSE
This manpage and the update-motd utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by
others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3
or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
- On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.