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Not that you can regenerate the motd by editing motd.template and running 'service motd restart' rather than rebooting. Small wordsmithing by me, and updated the example from FreeBSD 2.1.6.1 release to 12.1 release. Submitted by: Dan Mack
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.\" $NetBSD: motd.5,v 1.2 1994/12/28 18:58:53 glass Exp $
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.\"
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.\" This file is in the public domain.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd October 18, 2020
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.Dt MOTD 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm motd
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.Nd file containing message(s) of the day
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The file
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.Pa /var/run/motd
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is normally displayed by
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.Xr login 1
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after a user has logged in but before the shell is run.
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It is generally used for important system-wide announcements.
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During system startup, a line containing the kernel version string is
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prepended to
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.Pa /etc/motd.template
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and the contents are written to
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.Pa /var/run/motd .
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.Pp
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.Pa /var/run/motd
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can be updated without a system reboot by manually restarting the
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motd service after updating
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.Pa /etc/motd.template:
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.Bd -literal -offset -ident -compact
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service motd restart
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.Ed
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.Pp
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Individual users may suppress the display of this file by
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creating a file named
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.Dq Pa .hushlogin
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in their home directories or through
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.Xr login.conf 5 .
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width $HOME/.hushlogin -compact
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.It Pa /etc/motd.template
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The template file that system administrators can edit.
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.It Pa /var/run/motd
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The message of the day.
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.It Pa $HOME/.hushlogin
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Suppresses output of
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.Pa /var/run/motd .
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.El
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.Sh EXAMPLES
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.Bd -literal
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FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Sun Dec 29 03:08:31 PST 2019
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/home is full. Please cleanup your directories.
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.Ed
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr login 1 ,
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.Xr login.conf 5
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.Sh HISTORY
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Prior to
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.Fx 13.0 ,
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.Nm
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lived in
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.Pa /etc .
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