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Sysadmins - What's in Your MOTD?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the daily-thoughts-from-BOFHs dept.

permaculture asks: "This is a 'knowledge management' issue, on a University network. For many years we've had a network 'Message of the Day' that appears when any network user logs in. MOTD lists planned service outages for maintenance, progress on current issues, upcoming holidays, and other items that affect network users. Recently, this has been replaced by a page that announces general University business such as Open weeks, upcoming awards etc. There's a link on the page to the network MOTD that used to greet every user immediately after login. Does your network have a 'Message of the Day' that appears at login? Is it a Corporate business page, entirely related to network services, or something else entirely?"

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  1. Funny you should ask. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I was just thinking of upgrading mine. It currently reads:
    [grub@shrubbery grub]$ cat /etc/motd

    "Ask Slashdot" has reached a new low!

    [grub@shrubbery grub]$


    --
    Trolling is a art,
    1. Re:Funny you should ask. by duplicate-nickname · · Score: 5, Funny
      /me is confused
      C:\>cat /etc/motd
      'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
      operable program or batch file.
       
      C:\>
      --

      ÕÕ

  2. From Mail/Calendaring server by apenzott · · Score: 5, Funny

    Events on calendar are closer than they appear.

    --
    The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done shall not interrupt the one who is doing it.
  3. Message of the eon by ZiZ · · Score: 4, Funny

    DoublePlusBSD 0.0.0 (BIGBROTHER) #1: Wed Feb 29 04:20:00 GMT 1984

          not entirely working in your best interests
                                -- since 1984 --

    Access to and use of this server is restricted to those
    activities expressly permitted by the system administion
    staff.  If you're not sure if it's allowed, DON'T DO IT.

    --
    This flies in the face of science.
  4. Re:Mine is ... by plover · · Score: 5, Funny
    One day one of the guys left his terminal logged in as root. I edited it from a call to fortune to instead be:
    echo He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

    Of course, once he found out who did it, he changed my the folder on my user account from /usr/~john to /dev/floppy until I went begging his forgiveness. I didn't do it again.

    --
    John
  5. MOTD by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 4, Funny
    All your bash are belong to us.
  6. Re:We have a new MOTD by r3jjs · · Score: 4, Funny

    We are the electrons.

    Resistance is voltage / current.

  7. Re:Warning Mac user by AFCArchvile · · Score: 4, Funny
    I tweaked mine a bit:
    Somebody spilled Macintosh in my BSD!
    --
    "Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
  8. A nice simple one by Trogre · · Score: 4, Funny
    It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
    --
    "Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife