README.md

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: random@random.com

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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
• picotrading
• geerlingguy
• nickjj
• and many others.

thank you.