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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!svcs1!slix
  2. From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: Re: Login Message
  5. Message-ID: <683@svcs1.UUCP>
  6. Date: 26 Aug 92 01:42:12 GMT
  7. References: <derry.714440956@milton>
  8. Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
  9. Lines: 5
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  12. The login message is supposed to be found in /etc/motd.  motd stands for
  13. message of the day, and you can edit that to whatever is appropriate. 
  14.  
  15. You probably need root access to do this though.
  16.