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In this brief blog entry I will explain what to do with way to much time and Linux (using the MOTD file). What is the MOTD you might ask? MOTD is a computer acronym that stands for Message Of The Day. A MOTD is a text file displayed to a user logging in on IRC, a shell using telnet or SSH, or FTP. The MOTD is typically used to display rules, administrator contact, or simply a piece of ASCII art. So, who wants to view the blah default _yadda_ message over and over when, say, connecting to a host using SSH. I decided to add a little bit of ASCII art to my system's MOTD. First off that file is located at /etc/motd. motd is owned by the root user so proper permission will be issued using the sudo command. VIM is my choice editor while working in a terminal, replace with gedit if you want.

sudo vi /etc/motd

Nothing very fancy here, just some copy-left junk and distro credits. Add (or remove) some text. I use a personal quote, and some lovely ASCII art. ASCII art is pictures created with normal text characters. This is done by hand or with programs. Let's try a program. ;-) At www.network-science.de/ascii/ you can type in any text and the site just "do it!" leaving you with some ASCII art. Finally copy a font you like and paste that into your open /etc/motd. Linux paste [ middle click ] into terminal. ~ Fin

My MOTD

Welcome to the...
 _     _  ______ _______ _______        _____ __   _
 |____/  |_____/ |______ |  |  | |        |   | \  |
 |    \_ |    \_ |______ |  |  | |_____ __|__ |  \_|
 RSA:a3:b4:45:e3:80:47:5a:bb:f7:3d:da:f2:9f:79:6f:88

Ubuntu GNU/Linux 2.6.12-10-386 on i686.
This system was installed on Thu Dec 22 11:37:10 UTC 2005.

I doubt anyone will ever read this, but myself, seeing this
is a PRIVATE B0X unless you might be Luna.

        "The God is up high, the Czar is far away"
                                  PGP ID: 443C42A6

Some of the fonts I liked

http://www.network-science.de/ascii/
 _    _                  _ _
| |  / )                | (_)
| | / /  ____ ____ ____ | |_ ____
| |< <  / ___) _  )    \| | |  _ \
| | \ \| |  ( (/ /| | | | | | | | |
|_|  \_)_|   \____)_|_|_|_|_|_| |_|

(stop)

 |  /                    |_)
 ' /   __| _ \ __ `__ \  | | __ \
 . \  |    __/ |   |   | | | |   |
_|\_\_|  \___|_|  _|  _|_|_|_|  _|

(shadow)

 @@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@   @@@@@@   @@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@  @@@@@@@@
!@@            @@!  @@!  @@@  @@!  @@@
!@!           !@!   !@!  @!@  !@!  @!@
!@!          @!!    @!@!@!@!  @!@!!@!
!!!         !!!     !!!@!!!!  !!@!@!
:!!        !!:      !!:  !!!  !!: :!!
:!:       :!:       :!:  !:!  :!:  !:!
 ::: :::   :: ::::  ::   :::  ::   :::
 :: :: :  : :: : :   :   : :   :   : :

(poison)

 ____
/\  _`\
\ \ \/\_\  ____      __     _ __
 \ \ \/_/_/\_ ,`\  /'__`\  /\`'__\
  \ \ \L\ \/_/  /_/\ \L\.\_\ \ \/
   \ \____/ /\____\ \__/.\_\\ \_\
    \/___/  \/____/\/__/\/_/ \/_/

(larry3d)

    #        #
##########   #   ###  #########
#        #   ####     #       #
       ##    #        #       #
     ##      #        #       #
   ##        #        #########
 ##           #######

(katakana)

      ___           ___           ___           ___
     /  /\         /  /\         /  /\         /  /\
    /  /:/        /  /::|       /  /::\       /  /::\
   /  /:/        /  /:/:|      /  /:/\:\     /  /:/\:\
  /  /:/  ___   /  /:/|:|__   /  /:/~/::\   /  /:/~/:/
 /__/:/  /  /\ /__/:/ |:| /\ /__/:/ /:/\:\ /__/:/ /:/___
 \  \:\ /  /:/ \__\/  |:|/:/ \  \:\/:/__\/ \  \:\/:::::/
  \  \:\  /:/      |  |:/:/   \  \::/       \  \::/~~~~
   \  \:\/:/       |  |::/     \  \:\        \  \:\
    \  \::/        |  |:/       \  \:\        \  \:\
     \__\/         |__|/         \__\/         \__\/

(isometric3)

 _   __                   _ _
| | / /                  | (_)
| |/ / _ __ ___ _ __ ___ | |_ _ __
|    \| '__/ _ \ '_ ` _ \| | | '_ \
| |\  \ | |  __/ | | | | | | | | | |
\_| \_/_|  \___|_| |_| |_|_|_|_| |_|

(doom)

 _     _  ______ _______ _______        _____ __   _
 |____/  |_____/ |______ |  |  | |        |   | \  |
 |    \_ |    \_ |______ |  |  | |_____ __|__ |  \_|

(cyberlarge)

_//   _//                                 _//
_//  _//                                  _// _/
_// _//    _/ _///   _//    _/// _// _//  _//   _// _//
_/ _/       _//    _/   _//  _//  _/  _// _//_// _//  _//
_//  _//    _//   _///// _// _//  _/  _// _//_// _//  _//
_//   _//   _//   _/         _//  _/  _// _//_// _//  _//
_//     _//_///     _////   _///  _/  _//_///_//_///  _//

(catwalk)


  _|_|_|
_|        _|_|_|_|    _|_|_|  _|  _|_|
_|            _|    _|    _|  _|_|
_|          _|      _|    _|  _|
  _|_|_|  _|_|_|_|    _|_|_|  _|

(block)

01000011 01111010 01100001 01110010

(binary)