motd_news

This role enables or disables motd_news on ubuntu systems.

Ubuntu's motd_news unfortunately is quite persistent when you try to disable or remove it, so this role tries to provide a way to disable it in the way it was apparently intended.

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Role Variables

The following variables are available and set to following the following defaults in defaults/main.yml

motd_news_enable: false
motd_news_urls: https://motd.ubuntu.com
motd_news_wait: 5

motd_news_enable (bool) controls if the motd_news is enabled or disabled with the cache being truncated
motd_news_urls (string) whitespace separated urls of news services
motd_news_wait (string) timeout in seconds for fetches

Example Playbook

This role writes files as or from root so become is needed.

- hosts: motd_news_disable_hosts
  become: yes
  roles:
    - motd_news

- hosts: motd_news_enable_hosts
  become: yes
  roles:
    - { role: motd_news, motd_news_enable: true }

- hosts: motd_news_other_url_hosts
  become: yes
  roles:
    - { role: motd_news,
        motd_news_enable: true,
        motd_news_urls: "https://motd.example.com https://motd.ubuntu.com"
      }

You can of course define those variables on playbook_vars, group_vars or host_vars level.