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LeanDog MOTD header for AWS instances (drop in as replacement for /etc/update-motd.d/00-header)
#!/bin/sh
#
# 00-header - create the header of the MOTD
# Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Canonical Ltd.
#
# Authors: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
# with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
# 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
[ -r /etc/lsb-release ] && . /etc/lsb-release
if [ -z "$DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION" ] && [ -x /usr/bin/lsb_release ]; then
# Fall back to using the very slow lsb_release utility
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=$(lsb_release -s -d)
fi
HEADER=$(cat <<'EOF'
▄ ,▄▄▄▄╓,
▐▓─ ╟▓▓████▓▓▄
▐▓─ ,▄▓██▓▄ ╓Q▓██▓▄ ▄▓██▓▄ ╟▓▓ ▓▓▌ ,▄▓▓▓▓▄, ,▄▓▓▓▓▄,
▐▓─ ╓▓▀ ,▓▓µ ╬▓` ╙▓µ ▓▌ ▓▓ ╟▓▓ ▐▓▓ {▓▓▀..╙▓▓▌ ƒ▓▓▀..^▓▓▌
▐▓─ ▓▓▄▓▓▀▀Γ ▓▌ ▓▌ ▓▌ ╟▓ ╟▓▓ ▓▓▌ ▓▓▌ ╟▓▓ ▓▓▌ ╟▓▓
▓▌, └▓▓; ▄▓Γ ╙▓▄ ,▓▓▌ ▓▌ ╟▓ ╟▓▓▄▄▄▄▓▓█ └▓▓▓▄▄▄▓▓` └▓▓▓▄▄▄▓▓▓
^▀▀▀▀▀ ^▀▀▀▀` `▀▀▀▀¬▀▀ ▀Γ ╙▀ ╙▀▀▀▀▀▀Γ ^▀▀▀▀Γ ╙▀▀▀▀╟▓▓
╙▓▓▄▄▄▄▓▓▀
▀▀██▀▀
EOF
)
printf "Welcome to <machine name>!\n%s (%s %s %s)\n\n%s\n" "$DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION" "$(uname -o)" "$(uname -r)" "$(uname -m)" "${HEADER}"
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