Armbian Style MOTD for x86

JuxtaposedJaguar, 10 months ago

Does anyone else prefer no MOTD? You can SSH into your server without clobbering your scroll back buffer. It makes everything feel more seamless.

ExLisper, 10 months ago

Dude, I know your IP now. You’re hacked!

TCB13, 10 months ago

😂 😂 😂 god damn it. You took so long.

JuxtaposedJaguar, 10 months ago

Stop pinging yourself, stop pinging yourself!

AntBas, 10 months ago

There’s a bunch of options on github, some of my favorites:

github.com/sophieforceno/motd-scripts

github.com/HermannBjorgvin/motd

github.com/yboetz/motd

eeleech, 10 months ago

Why not write your own version? Getting the temperatures is easy and portable with the sensors command from lm-sensors. The rest of the info is easy to get using various commands (e.g. uptime, free) combined with a bit of sed/grep/awk for formatting.

TCB13, 10 months ago

That’s what I’ve been doing but… lemmy.world/comment/2990793

wyrmroot, 10 months ago

Looks like that config info might be defined in this script

TCB13, 10 months ago

Yes, that script depends on /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-allwinner-battery that, in turn, depends on the armbianmonitor service. :(

wyrmroot, 10 months ago

Can’t you cut out the battery code since your screenshot indicates it wasn’t used? I should be clear that you’ll have to edit some bash scripts to make what you’re asking for happen.

TCB13, 10 months ago

That’s an example, for instance the CPU temps depend on another os those files that is written by the armbianmonitor service… and I don’t want to run that service on a generic machine. In the past I modified the script to read temps from lm-sensors but that doesn’t seem to be very portable as both Intel and AMD have multiple variations on way they report the temps.

This is why I’m mostly looking for an alternative.

3arn0wl, 10 months ago

There’s Armbian for x86… www.armbian.com/uefi-x86/

TCB13, 10 months ago

I’m aware… but where can I get the included MOTD without having to burn the image and whatnot?

3arn0wl, 10 months ago

Sorry. Can’t help you there.

ik5pvx, 10 months ago

you should be able to drop an executable in /etc/update-motd.d/

also have a look at libpam-motd or at the systemd scripts that ubuntu uses

TCB13, 10 months ago

Yes… but this armbian thing has too many dependencies I wouln’t want to run the armbianmonitor service just to power this up.

ik5pvx, 10 months ago

sorry, I should have replied as top comment. I meant that on plain debian you can put executables in /etc/update-motd.d. That should do, otherwise have a look at libpam-motd , or steal the systemd scripts from an ubuntu install

TCB13, 10 months ago

I managed to mount the image and extract the files, however it still fails on a regular Debian box, x86 as a few tools seem to be missing:

<span style="color:#323232;">./30-armbian-sysinfo
</span><span style="color:#323232;">./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 41: /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-allwinner-battery: No such file or directory
</span><span style="color:#323232;">./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 92: ambienttemp: command not found
</span><span style="color:#323232;">./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 94: batteryinfo: command not found
</span><span style="color:#323232;">./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 96: getboardtemp: command not found
</span><span style="color:#323232;">System load:   1%               Up time:       7 days 19:15
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Memory usage:  34% of 15.59G    Zram usage:    1% of 14.90G     IP:            10.12.125.1 172.21.1.11
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Usage of /:    24% of 916G
</span><span style="color:#323232;">storage/:      1% of 952M
</span>

TCB13, 10 months ago

Grabbing armbian-allwinner-battery doesn’t help as it depends of stuff like /etc/armbianmonitor/datasources/ambienttemp