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Change Raspberry Pi's system startup message (MOTD)

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Raspberry Pi
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MOTD = Message Of The Day

Add the following to ~/.bashrc

 1################################
 2# CUSTOM MOTD FOR RASPBERRY PI	
 3################################
 4
 5let upSeconds="$(/usr/bin/cut -d. -f1 /proc/uptime)"
 6let secs=$((${upSeconds}%60))
 7let mins=$((${upSeconds}/60%60))
 8let hours=$((${upSeconds}/3600%24))
 9let days=$((${upSeconds}/86400))
10UPTIME=`printf "%d days, %02dh %02dm %02ds" "$days" "$hours" "$mins" "$secs"`
11
12# get the load averages
13read one five fifteen rest < /proc/loadavg
14
15echo "$(tput setaf 2)
16.~~.   .~~.    `date +"%A, %e %B %Y, %r"`
17'. \ ' ' / .'   `uname -srmo`$(tput setaf 1)
18.~ .~~~..~.
19: .~.'~'.~. :   Uptime.............: ${UPTIME}
20~ (   ) (   ) ~  Memory.............: `cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree | awk {'print $2'}`kB (Free) / `cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal | awk {'print $2'}`kB (Total)
21( : '~'.~.'~' : ) Load Averages......: ${one}, ${five}, ${fifteen} (1, 5, 15 min)
22~ .~ (   ) ~. ~  Running Processes..: `ps ax | wc -l | tr -d " "`
23(  : '~' :  )   IP Addresses.......: `/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | /bin/grep "inet addr" | /usr/bin/cut -d ":" -f 2 | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f 1` and `wget -q -O - http://icanhazip.com/ | tail`
24'~ .~~~. ~'    Free Disk Space....: `df -Pk | grep -E '^/dev/root' | awk '{ print $4 }' | awk -F '.' '{ print $1 }'`k on /dev/root
25    '~'        Weather............: `curl -s "http://rss.accuweather.com/rss/liveweather_rss.asp?metric=1&locCode=ASI|PK|PK007|LAHORE|" | sed -n '/Currently:/ s/.*: \(.*\): \([0-9]*\)\([CF]\).*/\2$
26$(tput sgr0)"

![Raspberry Pi - Custom MOTD]({{ site.url }}/assets/img/raspberrypi-motd.png)

Location:

For the location info, we are using curl to get live weather updates from the AccuWeather website. To change the location for the weather edit the locCode=ASI|PK|PK007|LAHORE| bit. Mine was Lahore at the time i set this. Here is an extensive list of region codes for Accuweather.

Remove last login text:

Change from PrintLastLog yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config to PrintLastLog no

PrintLastLog no

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