Every time you log into a *NIX machine you are wellcomed by a text banner that varies from one *NIX to other, even among Linux distributions.
If you want to customized this message it’s fairly easy, you only have to edit (as a root) the file /etc/motd and the next login will show your new message of the day.
My two cents to a so simple task is enrich your file writting inside some ASCII art. For instance, you may use figlet to writte inside the /etc/motd file your hostname. In short:
- Be sure you have figlet installed in your system or install: in Fedora; type yum list figlet or (lazy way) yum list figl* and figlet may appears in one of both list, installed or available package.
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Add different messages to each login with fortunes. First, be sure you have fortunes installed in your Fedora and then, edit your .profile and add an invocation to the fortunes program.
For instance, I add this:
echo -n "### Fortune for "
echo -n `date +%d\-\%m\-\%Y`
echo " ###"
/usr/games/fortune
I get this:
### Fortune for 22-04-2018 ###
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
BTW, I recommend to writte the full path to the fortune’s binary ’cause it’s installed out of the usual $PATH.
If you research a few over thhe Internet you may find differente fortunes collections, such The Simpsons, or my favorites inspired by BOFH.