adriagalin.motd

An ansible role for configuring Message Of The Day (motd) file. By default this role add additional information about the distro and the hardware.

Requirements

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  

Should work with:

• All Ubuntu
  

  • All Debian
    

    • All RHEL
      

      • All Centos
        

Role Variables

ag_motd_remove_default_config: false
ag_motd_restore_default_config: false
ag_motd_add_footer: false
ag_motd_sysadmins_signature: set sysadmin team signature
ag_motd_sysadmins_email: set sysadmin support email
ag_motd_content: set content of motd
ag_motd_info: additional information to show in message
ag_motd_add_update: false
ag_motd_update_content: additional dynamic content before motd

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

    - hosts: servers
      roles:
         - { role: adriagalin.motd }

This playbook produces the /etc/motd file looking like this:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    This system is managed by Ansible
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

This is host1 running Debian.

NOTE: System and application configuration for this host is managed by
automated systems. To ensure that any changes you make here are not lost,
please contact with your system administrators.

 FQDN:    host1
 Distro:  Debian 7.8 wheezy
 Virtual: NO
 CPUs:    8
 RAM:     16.0GB

Yours,
Random system administrators
email: [email protected]

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Last ansible run: 2015-08-12T23:09:07Z

License

GPLv3 License.

Author Information

Adrià Galín

Inspiration

During development, some roles in Ansible Galaxy/Github also inspired me:

• [michaelrigart](https://github.com/michaelrigart/ansible-role-motd)
  

  • [picotrading](https://github.com/picotrading/ansible-motd)
    

    • [geerlingguy](https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-mysql)
      

      • [nickjj](https://github.com/nickjj/ansible-locale)
        

        • and many others.
          

thank you.