The aim of this project is to give some informations when you log into a server through SSH.
Example:
___ ___ _ ____ _____ _ __
/ __|/ _ \ '__\ \ / / _ \ '__|
\__ \ __/ | \ V / __/ |
|___/\___|_| \_/ \___|_|
Debian GNU/Linux 8.4 (jessie) (kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64)
System information as of Fri Apr 22 10:02:57 2016
System load: 2.74 Processes: 167
Memory usage: 98% Users logged in: 1
Swap usage: 31%
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 Fri Apr 22 09:09:09 2016
No mail.
Last login: Fri Apr 22 09:23:01 2016 from laptop.example.org
Warning This is Debian and Debian-related distributions only.
You need to install some packages:
apt-get install figlet lsb-release python-utmp bc
Optionnally, 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 optionnally 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).
NB: if you use Debian 11 Bullseye, install python3-utmp
instead of python-utmp
and change python
to python3
in update-motd.d/20-system-info
and update-motd.d/sysinfo.py
:
sed -e "s/python/python3/" -i update-motd.d/20-system-info update-motd.d/sysinfo.py
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)