Create Message Of The Day Startup Banner CentOS

Create Message Of The Day Startup Banner CentOS

To create a custom start-up message that displays after login, do the following:

Open a terminal session, and elevate privileges to root

MOTD banner: Open a terminal session, and elevate privileges to root

from here type the following command:

vi /etc/motd

type in what you would like it do display

MOTD banner: type in what you would like it do display

save and quit by using

ctrl+c

:wq

from here close your terminal session, and re-open

MOTD banner: close your terminal session, and re-open

as you can see, the text added to the config file has been displayed.

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