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Debian 8 has gone back to a normal file in /etc/motd and has gotten rid of all the motd.tail shenanigans, though. :)
by 0x0 10y ago
Debian 8 has gone back to a normal file in /etc/motd and has gotten rid of all the motd.tail shenanigans, though. :)
- pdw 10y agoYes. The description section of Debian's motd(5) manpage now reads: The contents of /etc/motd are displayed by pam_motd(8) after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell. 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). On Debian GNU/Linux, dynamic content configured at /etc/pam.d/login is also dis‐ played by pam_exec. Which seems pretty sane.