dynmotd

dynmotd

Dynamic Motd (Message of the Day) an old script to print out some system-specific information.

Requirements

awk, egrep, sed, whoami, hostname, touch, source, rm, who, sort, uniq, tty, ps, ulimit, groups, cat, cut, wc, uptime, bc, uname, host, id, bash, df,

Installation

download

git clone https://github.com/rtulke/dynmotd.git
cd dynmotd

rename files

mv addlog.sh /usr/local/bin/addlog
mv rmlog.sh /usr/local/bin/rmlog
mv listlog.sh /usr/local/bin/listlog
mv dynmotd.sh /usr/local/bin/dynmotd

change permissions

chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/addlog
chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/rmlog
chmod 700 /usr/local/bin/listlog
chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/dynmotd

enabled dynmotd to display all informations after user login (only root)

echo "/usr/local/bin/dynmotd" > /etc/profile.d/motd.sh

Commands

• addlog, add a new log entry into the .maintenance file
• rmlog, delete a specific line in .maintenance
• listlog, list all .maintenance log entries
• dynmotd, shows system informations