How do I disable the Message of the Day?

After logging on some of our frontends, you are greeted by the system’s Message of the Day (aka MOTD) with information about your last login, quotas, available CPUs, etc.

If you do not want to see this message, you can turn it off by creating empty ~/.hushlogin file.

(BOOKWORM)user_123@skirit:~$ touch .hushlogin   # disable MOTD for frontends of /storage/brno2
(BOOKWORM)user_123@skirit:~$ logout

Now when logging to any frontend of /storage/brno2, the MOTD will be muted.

You need separate ~/.hushlogin for every /storage/

For example, /storage/brno2/home/user_123/.hushlogin will mute MOTD when logging on skirit, perian or oven, but not e.g. when logging on tarkil frontend.

Removing ~/.hushlogin from your home directory

(BOOKWORM)user_123@skirit:~$ rm ~/.hushlogin

will set MOTD to the original state.

How do I disable the Message of the Day?

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