Messages at login

[Chris Bier]

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Brian Densmore wrote:
| What's the difference between motd and fortune?
| I don't use either.
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|>From: Brian Kelsay
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|>The sayings are from fortune...
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| A Curious mind

MOTD is Message of the day.  It displays a message that is displayed on
login to give any info the admin wants to convey to all users without
sending an email to all.  AFAIK, /etc/motd is just a file and there is
no daemon.

Fortune reads fortune files with quotes and displays a random entry.
It's just a program and has nothing to do with logins.  It can, however
be added to .bash_profile, .profile, etc to display a random quote for a
user's login.

The man pages for each give more detail.

Chris
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