Ubuntu Server – How to Set the Message of the Day (MOTD)

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I have this in my Ubuntu SSH Banner Message:

Welcome to Ubuntu 13.10 (GNU/Linux 3.4.43+ armv7l)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
No mail.
Last login: Mon Dec  2 08:25:39 2013

I'd like to have something like the standard Ubuntu Server:

Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-29-virtual x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

  System information as of Fri Sep 28 09:48:57 UTC 2012

  System load:  0.08              Processes:           20
  Usage of /:   12.4% of 57.97GB   Users logged in:     0
  Memory usage: 5%                IP address for eth0: 10.123.161.58
  Swap usage:   0%

  Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/

31 packages can be updated.
20 updates are security updates.

Last login: Thu Sep 21 19:18:35 2012 from 122.181.4.42

How could I get this, please?
Thanks in advance!

Best Answer

It looks like the /etc/update-motd.d directory can no longer have links to the scripts. (This happened to the Cronjob directories a number of release back, and is part of the security stuff I would guess).

If you list the directory (ls -l /etc/update-motd.d) you will see the following

50-landscape-sysinfo -> /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper

If you want the System information back just copy the script into /etc/update-motd.d with the following command.

$ sudo cp /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper /etc/update-motd.d/52-landscape-sysinfo

Note that when landscape fixes the problem you will get two copy of the script and then you can just delete the file.

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