Changing motd

[Trent Lloyd]

On Friday 24 June 2005 21:37, Ben Novack wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> How can I change my motd to add an output from fortune?
>
> And,
>
> when I SSH into my Ubuntu machine, I'm told I have new mail. What is
> it? Can I ditch the "You have new mail" notification, seeing as all my
> mail is online via gmail?

This mail is often from package configuration stuff or cron jobs

use something like mutt to read it, can delete by pressing 'd' over each line 
of mai and q to quit,enter to read, q to go back to the  mail list.

Cheers,
Trent

>
> Danke, and danke.