From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:29:11 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Origin of the MOTD file? Message-ID: One of the things that's always fascinated me about Unix is the community aspect; in particular, I imagine that in the early days when machines were multiplexed among many simultaneous users, I wonder whether there was a greater sense of knowing what others were up to, working on, or generally doing. I think of the /etc/motd file as being a part of this. It is, in some very real sense, a way to announce things to the entire user community. So what are its origins? Where did it first appear? I haven't dug into this, but I imagine it was at Berkeley. What was it used for early on at individual sites? - Dan C. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: