motd-forge

Generate a randomized login banner (MOTD) for your servers: a title (rendered big via figlet if it's installed, plain text otherwise), current uptime, disk and memory usage, and a random quote.

$ gem install motd_forge

Or from source:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rake install

$ motd-forge
$ motd-forge --name mybox
$ motd-forge --quote-file ~/.motd-quotes.txt
$ motd-forge --no-quote

Run motd-forge --help for the full list of options.

Settings can also live in ~/.motd-forge.yml (or a path passed via --config):

title: mybox
quote_file: ~/.motd-quotes.txt

CLI flags take precedence over the config file.

Add a call to motd-forge from /etc/profile.d/motd-forge.sh (or your shell's rc file) so it prints on every SSH login:

#!/bin/sh
motd-forge

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rake spec   # run the test suite
$ bin/console             # interactive prompt

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