Hello,

I’ve been using Armbian on a bunch of ARM SCBs and they have a very nice MOTD on SSH login that shows CPU, RAM, Storage and networking infromation.

Is there anything similar for a regular x86 machine? I tried to grab the scripts from a NanoPi M4v2 board but had to change a ton of stuff to get it working on x86 and it isn’t portable as AMD and Intel report temps differently. Or… does anyone know if their x86 version has it working and where to get?

Just for reference I’m talking about this: https://cdn.tcb13.com/2023/armbian-motd.jpg

Thank you.

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      I managed to mount the image and extract the files, however it still fails on a regular Debian box, x86 as a few tools seem to be missing:

      ./30-armbian-sysinfo
      ./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 41: /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-allwinner-battery: No such file or directory
      ./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 92: ambienttemp: command not found
      ./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 94: batteryinfo: command not found
      ./30-armbian-sysinfo: line 96: getboardtemp: command not found
      System load:   1%               Up time:       7 days 19:15
      Memory usage:  34% of 15.59G    Zram usage:    1% of 14.90G     IP:            10.12.125.1 172.21.1.11
      Usage of /:    24% of 916G
      storage/:      1% of 952M
      
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        1 year ago

        Grabbing armbian-allwinner-battery doesn’t help as it depends of stuff like /etc/armbianmonitor/datasources/ambienttemp

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      1 year ago

      I’m aware… but where can I get the included MOTD without having to burn the image and whatnot?

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        1 year ago

        you should be able to drop an executable in /etc/update-motd.d/

        also have a look at libpam-motd or at the systemd scripts that ubuntu uses

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          1 year ago

          Yes… but this armbian thing has too many dependencies I wouln’t want to run the armbianmonitor service just to power this up.

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            1 year ago

            sorry, I should have replied as top comment. I meant that on plain debian you can put executables in /etc/update-motd.d. That should do, otherwise have a look at libpam-motd , or steal the systemd scripts from an ubuntu install