General :: Put A Script Into The Motd File?
Feb 13, 2010how i can put an scipt into the motd file? For example if i want to know how many users are logged on while i log in.
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General :: Dynamically Scripting Update Of MOTD?
May 5, 2011I know this is somewhat lame, but I remember back in college the MOTD on some of the systems was a random quote. I always wanted to do that. It seemed really trivial, but still neat and clever.
I searched a bit and don't see anything built-in for CentOS, so I was considering writing a Perl script to parse the RSS feed from a quotes site, then update /etc/motd with a random quote from the feed. This would nearly guarantee I could have this on any distro with identical results. Does anyone know of anything that already exists? Is anyone interested in using a script that I write to have the MOTD updated with random quotes themselves, or am I the only one? I'm perfectly willing to share the result when I'm finished.
General :: Display Motd After Entering Username?
Feb 20, 2011I want to display motd after entering username but before entering password. Is it possible?
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Dec 7, 2010ive done countless google searches and forum searches with all the same results all the time. Is there anyone who can tell me what file to edit in order to display? Ive tried editing the /etc/motd file and no luck. I tried alot of other stuff too.
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Mar 28, 2011[On Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit]
I have been trying to get rid of the boring motd when ssh-ing into the machine. I have sudo vim-ed the /etc/motd file to no avail.
Even if I add a motd.tail tail file with my content. I still get the boring and verbose:
Quote:
Linux barney 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10
Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: [URL]
How do I get rid of this?
Ubuntu :: MOTD Keeps Reverting To Default?
Jun 6, 2010I am setting a customized MOTD, however after 24 hrs, it reverts back to the default MOTD.
I noticed that it is a softlink
Code:
cmmiller@ladytron:/etc$ ls -al | grep motd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2009-07-05 10:47 motd -> /var/run/motd
cmmiller@ladytron:/etc$
And I'm making the change to /var/run/motd, however it keeps changing.
Ubuntu Servers :: Deletes Changes To MOTD?
Jul 29, 2010I applied some changed to the MOTD in /etc/update-motd (including removing the canonical mention in ./python2.6/dist-packages/landscape/sysinfo/landscapelink.py). After updating the system I found that all my changes had been deleted without any warning. Is there a way around this nonsense?
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Dec 13, 2010I am not sure what happened here. I have 10.04.1 and was able to run a command "update-motd". I wasn't able to get it to dynamically create a new motd. My hope was to have it recreate it once a day and email me the MOTD from the server.
In trying to get it to do this, I did a "apt-get install update-motd" in which it proceeded to do this, but then after the installation, I get:
"update-motd: command not found".
What did I do, how can I manually update/create the /var/run/motd file?
Server :: MOTD Will Not Change Ubuntu 10.10?
Apr 20, 2011I am trying to change the motd "message of the day" on my Ubuntu server 10.10,
But when i do sudo vi /etc/motd...
i can change the text here, but as soon as I save and exit this file. It changes itself straight back.
Programming :: Script To Generate SSH Banner MOTD?
Apr 18, 2010I want to automate my System-installation. So i try to make a Script that will generate the /etc/motd. Now i have the Problem that the script has some variables and after the "Hostname, OS, HW, IP" the "stars" are anyware, but not there they should. The most problem is the $OS this string can verry long or verry short be. Fedora release 12 (Constantine) or RedHat 5.4 i can do that after the variables place the "stars" on the write position?
Script
Code:
#!/bin/bash
[code]....
Ubuntu Servers :: MOTD Root Disk Usage?
Dec 13, 2010I've just installed ubuntu 10.04 and the message text that shows when you ssh in shows the disk usage of /home.How do I get it to show the disk usage of the entire root / instead? (like it used to on some older version of ubuntu)
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Dec 6, 2010I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.10 and noticed that every time I log into the server via ssh it gives details that i don't necessarily want it to show.
Code:
Linux zeus 2.6.35-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 22:14:14 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10
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Server :: Squirrelmail's Blank Screen After Editing Motd In Config.php?
May 31, 2010When i tried to log in, i get blank screen on the login page, even the src/configtest.php This can be solved by reverting whatever was edited for the motd option to its original paramater. anyone experienced this before and found a solution? The only reason for me to use php 5.2 is to install roundcube alongside squirrelmail. Using: centos 5.5 32-bit, squirrelmail 1.4.8, php 5.2
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Using failsafe I can start a terminal. From terminal I tried to start X
Code: sudo startx Result: Running on desplay:0
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Code: sudo startxfce4 And I get up a graphical desktop.
So this is not a critical situation as I easily can use this method to log on, but as there has been something causing this I would like to be able to resolve this nonetheless. Btw it is not the old chmod trick in play here, cause my .iceauthority file is gone alltogheter.
General :: 6.13 GMP-5.0.0 LFS Make Error - Cannot Open Shared Object File: No Such File Or Directory
Jun 10, 2010I'm currently stuck at 6.13 GMP-5.0.0 of the LFS installation. After running make, I receive the following:
error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.20.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [libmpn.la] Error 127
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General :: Copy Certain File Types Recursively While Maintaining File Structure On Destination?
Jun 14, 2011I have just been bothered by a fairly small issue for some time now. I am trying to search (using find -name) for some .jpg files recursively. This is a Redhat environment with bash.
I get this job done though I need to copy ALL of them and put them in a separate folder BUT I also need to keep the order intact after copying.
For e.g - If I get a JPG file under /home/usr/new/1/ then the destination also needs to be /test/old/new/1/.
At the moment, I am simply putting all files under /test/old/ and I can't somehow get the later /new/1/ folder path created under /test/old/
I understand this could well be done using while OR if else loop, though if someone can just guide me with a hint, I would be really grateful.
I will complete the rest of the steps and was asking here since I am still not comfortable with the shell/bash scripts yet and planning to be really good at it over the next couple of months.
General :: Parsing File Dates - Get The Date Of The Last Time A File Was Modified ?
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General :: Copy File Whose Source Path Is Mentioned In File To Specified Destination
Jun 3, 2010I had a situation in which the the path of the file to be copied is written in other file and I had to copy it using shell script..I can use cp $(cat /home/robert/location.txt) /media/sda1 on normal linux shell...But I am using buildroot script where $(cat /home/robert/location.txt) evaluate to nothing..is just blank..
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Mar 30, 2010I need a shell script that will add the users name and date to a file when the user has modified the file, these files are within a group and only accessible to this group. But we need a way for people in the group to know who and when the file was last modified.
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