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Message of the Day (MOTD) installation and configuration module
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Version information

  • 0.9.0 (latest)
released Feb 17th 2014

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'devopera-domotd', '0.9.0'
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Add this module to your Bolt project:

bolt module add devopera-domotd
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install devopera-domotd --version 0.9.0

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Tags: ubuntu, rhel, service, motd, centos, message-of-the-day, status

Documentation

devopera/domotd — version 0.9.0 Feb 17th 2014

devopera-domotd

The Message of the Day (MOTD) can be used to show system information at login time. For the Devopera family of modules, it shows a summary of host information (size/spec of machine), network setup (IP/MAC), what's installed (profiles and services) and exposed ports.

Changelog

2013-09-28

  • rewritten for both CentOS and Ubuntu

2013-09-03

  • /etc/issue now dynamically generated from /etc/issue.template like motd.template

2013-05-08

  • Added /etc/issue message to show IP/MAC address before login

How it works

In CentOS, the message of the day lives in /etc/motd. It is optionally updated from a template in /etc/motd.template by a script appended to /etc/rc.local. In Ubuntu, the message of the day is typically composed from fragments in /etc/update-motd.d/*. We therefore compose the motd in a temporary folder (/etc/puppet/tmp), optionally from a template in the same directory. update-motd.d/15-devopera-motd then displays content from that temporary folder.

Usage

Setup a simple informative message of the day at puppet-time

class { 'domotd' : }

Refresh frequently changing information at machine start-up (dynamics)

class { 'domotd' :
  use_dynamics => true,
}

Copyright and License

Copyright (C) 2012 Lightenna Ltd

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.