The aim of this project is to give some informations when you log into a server through SSH.
Example:
___ ___ _ ____ _____ _ __
/ __|/ _ \ '__\ \ / / _ \ '__|
\__ \ __/ | \ V / __/ |
|___/\___|_| \_/ \___|_|
Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) (kernel 6.1.0-7-amd64)
System information as of Thu Apr 13 08:43:28 2023
System load: 2.84 Processes: 338
Memory usage: 81.69% Users logged in: 1
Swap usage: 21.34%
Disk Usage:
Usage of / : 37.0% of 19.18GB
Usage of /boot : 36.6% of 0.11GB
Usage of /home : 11.1% of 501.60GB
Inode Usage:
Usage of / : 12.7% of 1286144
Usage of /boot : 1.1% of 31232
Usage of /home : 0.1% of 33406976
Logged in users:
user from laptop.example.org at Mon Apr 3 09:28:01 2023
No mail.
Last login: Mon Apr 3 07:28:01 2023 from laptop.example.org
Warning This is Debian and Debian-related distributions only.
Go to https://framagit.org/luc/dynamic-motd/-/releases/permalink/latest, download the Debian package and its signature file.
Check the signature of the Debian package and install the package:
minisign -Vm dynamic-motd_*.deb -P RWRzxrp04vb4Db3sle7Az6kSeCipT1ixRjRZPXdUUQuuwgi9UW81E+dx &&
sudo apt install ./dynamic-motd_*.debYou need to install some packages:
apt-get install figlet lsb-release python3-utmp bc
Optionally, you can install needrestart which is used to show a message if your server need a reboot (main reason (and the only one I know): you have upgraded your kernel).
If you don't install needrestart, it will work, but you won't be warned about the need for a reboot.
needrestart warns you about services that need to be restarted too (but is slower than checkrestart for that, see below).
You can optionally install debian-goodies which provides checkrestart, which will be used to warn you about services that need to be restarted. Relying on needrestart for that is slow (±7 seconds) while checkrestart do it faster (less than one second).
Check out the repo (to a folder of your choice)
git clone https://framagit.org/luc/dynamic-motd.git
cd dynamic-motd/
Then, as root:
cp -r update-motd.d/ /etc
rm /etc/motd
ln -s /var/run/motd /etc/motd
Just create a /etc/update-motd.d/hushlogin file containing the names of the users, like:
alice
bob
You will find a working salt formula in init.sls.
cd /srv/salt
git clone https://framagit.org/luc/dynamic-motd.git motd
salt your_server state.sls motd
GPLv2. Have a look at the LICENSE file.
- Dustin Kirkland, the guy behind the Ubuntu dynamic motd (I took some scripts from Ubuntu and stole inspiration too :D)
- https://github.com/maxis1718/update-motd.d for the skeleton
- https://github.com/jnweiger/landscape-sysinfo-mini for the python script (slightly modified)