<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Dustin Kirkland <<a href="mailto:kirkland@ubuntu.com">kirkland@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm curious if the "free software" and "no warranty" paragraphs are still necessary/useful?  Do they belong in the MOTD, printed *every* time a user logs onto a system on the command line? </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> My thought is that these aren't exactly "Messages of the Day" (and we really now have the capability to make the MOTD be "Messages of the Day").  They're more like the "tips" you get the first time you open Gimp, or something.  Would it be better to display these on first boot, or first-login, and then stow them away elsewhere, and leave /etc/motd to the more interesting, dynamic messages that provide relevant information about your system? </blockquote><div>  </div></div>Just my 2 cents, but editing /etc/motd.tail is one of the first things I do when installing a new box.  Yes I agree that using motd for more interesting/relevant information is a good idea. Thanks for listening. -- Party On, Adam