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-the-day 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.