Never tried it, and IIRC, motd is just a text file - but does that stop you from running a systemd timer to update it every few minutes? Or, if it’s your own server and there’s only a single user (logging in), put a script in your profile that changes the motd for the next login?
I thought motd could not be scripted hmmm…
Never tried it, and IIRC, motd is just a text file - but does that stop you from running a systemd timer to update it every few minutes? Or, if it’s your own server and there’s only a single user (logging in), put a script in your profile that changes the motd for the next login?
For multiple users: /etc/profile or /etc/bash.bashrc
Some shells (e.g.
fish) allow you to easily customize this./etc/motd no, but it runs the scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/