<p>The Message of the Day is displayed when you log in or connect to a server. It typically shows information about the operating system, license information, last login, etc.</p>

<p>It is often useful to customize the Message of the Day to inform your users about some specifics of the system they are connecting to. In this example we will look at a bundle which adds three lines to the <code>/etc/motd</code> file to inform about some system characteristics and that the system is managed by CFEngine.</p>

<p>The bundle is defined like this:</p>

<p>[%CFEngine_include_example(motd.cf)%]</p>

<p>Example run:</p>

<p><code>
# ls /tmp/motd
ls: cannot access /tmp/motd: No such file or directory
# cf-agent -f motd.cf
# cat /tmp/motd
Welcome to tashkent!
This system is managed by CFEngine.
The policy was last updated on Sat Jun  8 15:16:00 2013.
The system has 4 cpus.
Network interfaces on this system are eth0, eth1,
and the ip-addresses assigned are 127.0.0.1, 10.10.23.68, 192.168.183.208.
# 
</code></p>