Terminal welcome message

[FirebarUK]

I'm trying to figure out how I get a new terminal window to display a message. For example, I open a gnome-terminal or xterm or whatever and before I get a prompt it display's a little welcome message.

Does anyone know how to do this? I've edited the /etc/motd file to give ssh'ers a message.

thanks in advance.

 

[FirebarUK]

Nope, if I open a terminal window on the desktop I dont get the motd. SSHing in, the MOTD appears.

 

[FirebarUK]

Just as an example; in suse I can open a terminal window and I'll get a message saying;

"have a lot of fun"
lzw@bob: _