Sysadmins - What's in Your MOTD?

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 Recently, this has been replaced by a page that announces general University business such as Open weeks, upcoming awards etc.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?"

Comments

Re:why bother, people don't read

[Tsunayoshi]

People don't care about your silly technical problems, they've learned that screaming loudly works, as it does.

Oh God is this true where I work. The sysadmin staff will engineer a decent solution, using the minimal amount of machines, replete with all required network and system security (we are a DOD shop), and every Tom, Dick and Harry won't shut the fuck up until they get exactly what they want because senior management will give it to them because Tom/Dick/Harry are louder and management is deathly afraid of failure.

We constantly ask them why they bother paying us to be the technical gurus if they never listen to our engineering designs.

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