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Including pending update list in motd
How would you include the list and / or count of pending updates in the welcome banner?
Eg.
username: User
password: *****
Hi 'User', welcome on 'localhost'
There are 8 pending updates, you need to ...
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upgraded to Ubuntu 13.04 Server, do-release-upgrade still shows
I upgraded my server to Ubuntu 13.04 Server a while ago. However, the notice that tells me there's a New Release '13.04' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it. still shows. Obviously, ...
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Get default ubuntu motd in fish shell
I would like to have Ubuntu's MOTD in the fish shell.
Ubuntu's default is as follows:
That is essentially what I would like to see when open up my terminal (terminator, which loads fishfish)
As ...
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/etc/motd is not displayed when a named pipe?
Running Gentoo 3.4.0
Having recently heard about the /etc/motd file, i tried to have it display random cowsay fortunes.
I wrote some random bash script to act as a daemon, feeding the /etc/motd as a ...
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How to update MOTD regularly?
Every week there's a new work log/to-do list at work. There's a todo script which can be used to extract my own to-do items from that. Currently this is called in ~/.bash_aliases_local, which is ...
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Motd not changing
My /etc/motd file is showing duplicate messages. When I edit it manual, it keeps returning to the messed up version whenever a user logs in.
How do I stop this? I'm using Ubuntu 10.04
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Motd doesn't show up
I'd like to set a custom motd ("message of the day") on my machine (currently Mac OS X 10.6.5 using Bash with Terminal.app).
In /etc/ there was no motd file so I created one with some sample text. ...
