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Print useful Ubuntu news in your terminal easily.


This useful news is printed when a user opens the TTY console on Ubuntu and logs in.

News printed on the Ubuntu TTY terminal.
News printed on the Ubuntu TTY terminal.

The news is from /var/cache/motd-news.

But if a user puts this command in their .bashrc, the news will appear.

cat /var/cache/motd-news

The /var/run/motd.dynamic file contains the rest of the information printed to the TTY screen upon login.

Install this package.

4.4 Thu Sep 06 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo apt install landscape-common

Then run this command to print the system information that Ubuntu Server prints to the TTY console.

4.4 Thu Sep 06 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ landscape-sysinfo 
  System load:  0.29                Processes:              254
  Usage of /:   86.4% of 228.18GB   Users logged in:        1
  Memory usage: 19%                 IP address for enp0s25: 192.168.1.2
  Swap usage:   0%                  IP address for virbr0:  192.168.122.1

  => / is using 86.4% of 228.18GB

This will be very helpful to a user that is wishing to replicate the Ubuntu Server environment on an Ubuntu Client system.

Add these two lines to the bottom of your .bashrc file.

cat /var/cache/motd-news
 
landscape-sysinfo

And this is the output that will be printed to your terminal when opening it.

 * Read about Ubuntu updates for L1 Terminal Fault Vulnerabilities
   (L1TF).

   - https://ubu.one/L1TF

 * Check out 6 great IDEs now available on Ubuntu. There may even be
   something worthwhile there for those crazy EMACS fans ;)

   - https://bit.ly/6-cool-IDEs
  System load:  0.28                Processes:              254
  Usage of /:   86.4% of 228.18GB   Users logged in:        1
  Memory usage: 19%                 IP address for enp0s25: 192.168.1.2
  Swap usage:   0%                  IP address for virbr0:  192.168.122.1

  => / is using 86.4% of 228.18GB
4.4 Thu Sep 06 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ 

Very useful information for a Linux user.


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