From 399644e47874bff147afb19c89228901ac39340e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:40:15 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.05.01. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man5/motd.5 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man5/motd.5 (limited to 'man5/motd.5') diff --git a/man5/motd.5 b/man5/motd.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b506c95 --- /dev/null +++ b/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 +.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond +.TH motd 5 2022-10-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.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. +.PP +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) -- cgit v1.2.3