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

from here type the following command:
vi /etc/motd
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

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