AenonDynamics / linux-motd-sysinfo

:newspaper: Displays general system information via pam.motd on login. Shows mounted volumes, system utilization, kernel+os version. DEB Package

MOTD-SYSINFO

Displays general system information via pam.motd on login

Sun  5 Jan 12:34:52 CET 2020
Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) | 4.19.0-6-amd64
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System load:    0.40     Memory usage:  11.0%
Local users:    1        Swap usage:    0.0%

Filesystem                                  Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p3                             2240G 1680G  450G  79% /
/dev/nvme0n1p2                              923M  129M  731M  15% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1                              511M  5.1M  506M   1% /boot/efi

andi@sapphire:~$

Package Installation

1. Add Aenon-Dynamics Repository

# download the gpg key
wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/aenon-dynamics.gpg https://packages.aenon-dynamics.com/static/pubkey.gpg

# add apt repository with pinned key
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/aenon-dynamics.gpg] https://packages.aenon-dynamics.com/debian stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/aenon-dynamics.list

2. Install the Package

apt-get update
apt-get install motd-sysinfo

Manual Installation

# copy script
cp motd-sysinfo /usr/bin/motd-sysinfo

# mark it executable
chmod 0755 /usr/bin/motd-sysinfo

# add symlink
ln -s /usr/bin/motd-sysinfo /etc/update-motd.d/11-sysinfo

Dependencies

The script uses the figlet package to display the hostname

apt-get install figlet

Distributions

Tested with:

• Debian Jessie
• Debian Stretch
• Debian Buster

Contribution

The .deb package is automatically generated via a Continuous Delivery Pipeline - please do not build packages manually!

License

MOTD-SYSINFO is OpenSource and licensed under the Terms of The MIT License (X11) - your're welcome to contribute