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.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
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.\" Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
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.\" USA.
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.\"
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:08:16 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
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.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
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.TH MOTD 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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motd \- message of the day
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The contents of \fI/etc/motd\fP are displayed by
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.BR login (1)
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after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell.
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The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file
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has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk
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space than mail to all users).
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.SH FILES
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/etc/motd
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR login (1),
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.BR issue (5)
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