NAME

       update-motd - immediately update the dynamic MOTD and print it to stdout

SYNOPSIS

       update-motd

DESCRIPTION

       The PAM MOTD module updates the Message-of-the-Day automatically on user logins.

       But sometimes, the system administrator may want to update the MOTD immediately or on demand.

       This simple program performs the same actions handled by PAM on login, and prints the new MOTD to stdout.

       Note  that only the system administrator can typically write to the MOTD, and thus this utility should be
       executed as the root user.

       For best practices and additional information, please see update-motd(5).

FILES

       /etc/motd, /var/run/motd, /etc/update-motd.d

SEE ALSO

       motd(5), pam_motd(8), run-parts(8), update-motd(5)

AUTHOR

       This manpage and the update-motd framework was written by Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com> for
       Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
       document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3  published  by  the  Free  Software
       Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL.

update-motd                                     14 February 2013                                  update-motd(8)