1.\" $NetBSD: motd.5,v 1.2 1994/12/28 18:58:53 glass Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" This file is in the public domain. 4.\" $FreeBSD$ 5.\" 6.Dd October 18, 2020 7.Dt MOTD 5 8.Os 9.Sh NAME 10.Nm motd 11.Nd file containing message(s) of the day 12.Sh DESCRIPTION 13The file 14.Pa /var/run/motd 15is normally displayed by 16.Xr login 1 17after a user has logged in but before the shell is run. 18It is generally used for important system-wide announcements. 19During system startup, a line containing the kernel version string is 20prepended to 21.Pa /etc/motd.template 22and the contents are written to 23.Pa /var/run/motd . 24.Pp 25.Pa /var/run/motd 26can be updated without a system reboot by manually restarting the 27motd service after updating 28.Pa /etc/motd.template : 29.Bd -literal -offset -ident -compact 30service motd restart 31.Ed 32.Pp 33Individual users may suppress the display of this file by 34creating a file named 35.Dq Pa .hushlogin 36in their home directories or through 37.Xr login.conf 5 . 38.Sh FILES 39.Bl -tag -width $HOME/.hushlogin -compact 40.It Pa /etc/motd.template 41The template file that system administrators can edit. 42.It Pa /var/run/motd 43The message of the day. 44.It Pa $HOME/.hushlogin 45Suppresses output of 46.Pa /var/run/motd . 47.El 48.Sh EXAMPLES 49.Bd -literal 50FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Sun Dec 29 03:08:31 PST 2019 51 52/home is full. Please cleanup your directories. 53.Ed 54.Sh SEE ALSO 55.Xr login 1 , 56.Xr login.conf 5 57.Sh HISTORY 58Prior to 59.Fx 13.0 , 60.Nm 61lived in 62.Pa /etc . 63