On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:13:46PM +1100, Ben Stringer wrote: > > I'm trying to edit /etc/motd to include various things, say like kernel > > version. Adding a line like `uname -r` doesn't work, it simply echoes > > that instead of executing the command. Any way I can actually accomplish > > this? > I'd suggest adding some code to /etc/rc.local to write what you want. As Or, go a different route: instead of editing motd, put a little script in /etc/profile.d that prints what you want. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>