Configure Terminal Welcome Message in Linux
July 10th, 2009 Posted in linux
If you are curious when you open any terminal in Unix, Linux enviroment , via text-mode you will get a general method all the time that you access for the first time, and if you ever want to change the output of this file, to display a custom message that you want , here i will thell you how to do this. It is very simple, just need to have write access to the file located in the /etc folder and the complete path to the file is this:
/etc/motd
and here you can set whatever you want, and save it, and the next time you login via text-mode you will see that the message has changed to whatever you putted on the file.
As you can see is a very simple thing to do, to change the welcome message in the console.
