1 .\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
2 .\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
4 .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
6 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:08:16 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
7 .\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
8 .TH motd 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
10 motd \- message of the day
16 after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell.
18 The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file
19 has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk
20 space than mail to all users).