Message of the day

This is a simple Puppet module to manage the Message of the day on unix operating systems. The module uses figlet to generate a motd header for the host that is managed by puppet along with some basic facts.

Author

• Samúel Jón Gunnarsson [email protected]
• GitHub Project
• Blog
• @samueljon

Sample

-----------------------------------------------------------
                                  _ 
                        _ __  ___/ |
                       | '_ \/ __| |
                       | | | \__ \ |
                       |_| |_|___/_|

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    Welcome to ns1.example.com
    OS: CentOS Release 6.5
    OS family: RedHat
    Architechture: x86_64
    IP: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
    Product: VMware Virtual Platform
    CPU: 1 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz
    RAM: 996.38 MB
    System uptime: 4:36 hours
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    This system is managed by Puppet
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Getting Started

In your puppet manifests, site.pp or in the Dashboard or other ENC:

include motd