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How to set your Rust Servers MOTD

Quickly set your Rust server's MOTD (Message of the Day) with Kinetic Hosting! Just edit your serverauto.cfg file (found in Server > Rust > cfg), find the line server.motd, and add your custom message between the quotes " ". Save, restart your server, and keep your players informed easily!

The MOTD is what you will first in chat when connectiong to your server, this can be used to give your players some information about the server when they connect.

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel

2 Head to the file manager.

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3 Click on the Server folder.

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4 Now, open the Rust folder.

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5 Open the cfg folder.

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6 Now, open the serverauto.cfg file.

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7 Navigate the configuration files until you find "server.motd"

8 Within this, you will enter the information you would like displayed between the "".

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9 From there, you can start your rust server.

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