/etc/motd

twandungen · 02-13-2010, 03:24 PM

Hi everyone,

Can anyone tell me how i can put an scipt into the motd file? For example if i want to know how many users are logged on while i log in.

Any ideas? Or is it just not possible?

rjlee · 02-13-2010, 04:09 PM

The motd file is a plain text file that the profile script cats to the user.

To have a script run when you log in, put it in a script named .bash_profile (assuming that you use bash as a shell) in your home directory, or for all users, add it to /etc/profile

Hope that helps,

—Robert J Lee