https://github.com/HermannBjorgvin/MOTD

Mini MOTD, a customizable, configurable, standardized MOTD for your homelab server or laptop
https://github.com/HermannBjorgvin/MOTD

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Mini MOTD, a customizable, configurable, standardized MOTD for your homelab server or laptop

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/HermannBjorgvin/MOTD
• Owner: HermannBjorgvin
• Created: 2019-04-28T00:33:24.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-12-29T11:12:17.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-01T00:43:22.587Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 161 KB
• Stars: 110
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# motd

This is my personal MOTD, I am accepting contributions now from people who are interested in personalizing their MOTD to make it more interesting. My idea here is to create a minimal motd that has the most amount of information about your system in the least amount of space and gets more verbose only when things fail.

![image of motd](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HermannBjorgvin/motd/master/motd.png)

My idea for this is to create two column rackmount style layout where each column is 34 characters wide and each unit is 1 line, with 2 spaces between the column this makes the motd 70 characters wide which I found ideal for my personal use.

Here is an illustration of this kind of layout:

```

[============ 3 unit ============]  [============ 1 unit ============]

[============ 3 unit ============]

[============ 3 unit ============]  [============ 4 unit ============]

                                    [============ 4 unit ============]

[============ 2 unit ============]  [============ 4 unit ============]

[============ 2 unit ============]  [============ 4 unit ============]

[=========================== spanning unit ==========================]

```

Modules I have created for myself:

  * TLS certificate expiration checker

  * Systemctl services checker

  * APC UPS status indicator

  * Hard disk temperature monitor

  * ZFS zpool space usage

To run this locally you should run the `./10-local-testing` file, the `./10-mini-motd` file has absolute paths for `/etc/update-motd.d/` for running in production.  

Take a look at `./10-mini-motd` or `./10-local-testing` to see how I set configuration parameters, not everything is configurable yet but I am working on it (any help is welcome).  

I would also like to thank everyone whos code I used in this project, people on reddit, other repositories, stack overflow snippets.