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+.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
+.\"
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+.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:08:16 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
+.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
+.TH MOTD 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+motd \- message of the day
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The contents of \fB/etc/motd\fP are displayed by
+.BR login (1)
+after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell.
+
+The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file
+has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk
+space than mail to all users).
+.SH FILES
+/etc/motd
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR login (1),
+.BR issue (5)