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.

Node port of the motd_forge Ruby gem.

Installation

$ npm install -g motd-forge

Usage

$ 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.

Config file

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.

Wiring it into a login banner

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

Development

$ yarn install
$ yarn test              # run the test suite
$ node bin/motd-forge.js   # run the CLI directly from source

License

MIT