[TUHS] Origin of the MOTD file?

Chet Ramey chet.ramey at case.edu
Fri Mar 16 01:36:49 AEST 2018


On 3/15/18 11:35 AM, Ron Natalie wrote:

> One amusing thing to do with /etc/motd is to add the like “You might have
> mail.”    I thought it was a cute joke, but I never realized how much
> confusion it would cause.     I did it at BRL and had people sending me
> email asking why they didn’t have mail (it only said you MIGHT).

Try adding "Segmentation Fault (core dumped)".


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