Thursday, July 24, 2008

How To Customize SSH Login Shell Greeting

Network of friends could send greetings to each other by saying any greeting phrases every now and then. Linux shell users and systems admins too could send a greeting messages, daily announcement, scheduled maintenance message or simply a message of the day to power linux shell users every time they visit their linux shell. Greeting shell users with these message could even swept away shell moods and start a good working day.

Here's a quick tip to customize linux message of the day.

Change Linux Message of the Day

Step One

Edit /etc/motd and have something like

======================================================
#####
#######
@                                            ##O#O##
######          @@#                                           #VVVVV#
##             #                                          ##  VVV  ##
##            @@@   ### ####   ###    ###  ##### ######     #          ##
##         @  @#   ###    ##  ##     ##    ###  ##       #            ##
##        @   @#   ##     ##  ##     ##      ###         #            ###
##            @@#   ##     ##  ##     ##      ###        QQ#           ##Q
##          # @@#    ##     ##  ##     ##     ## ##     QQQQQQ#       #QQQQQQ
##        ## @@# #  ##     ##  ###   ###    ##   ##    QQQQQQQ#     #QQQQQQQ
############  ###  ####   ####   #### ### ##### ######   QQQQQ#######QQQQQ


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