MOTD.NEWS(5)

NAME
motd.news

DESCRIPTION
The <pathetc in inn.conf>/motd.news file contains any local information for news readers to be shown when they issue the LIST MOTD command. Such information may be notifications of upcoming downtime etc. The entire file is returned to the newsreader.

A missing motd.news is not an error--the client will just get an empty response.

SEE ALSO
inn.conf(5).