CDIST-TYPE__MOTD(7)

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version 7.0.0 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 cdist-type__motd(7) — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so this is cdist-type__motd from the cdist manual, section 7. and no cap, it's a whole vibe. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

cdist-type__motd — manage the message of the day, aka the little note your machine says hi with. iconic behaviour honestly 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This cdist type lets you easily set up /etc/motd. that's it, that's the job, and it does it slay 💅

NOTE: on some OSes, motd is a lil bit special — go peek at motd(5) if you're curious. rn Debian, Devuan, Ubuntu and FreeBSD are taken into account. if your OS of choice does something besides /etc/motd, check the source and contribute support for it. otherwise it will likely just work 🦋

🫶 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 🫶

None. literally none. zero. you don't have to bring anything to this party 🎉

👑 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS 👑

  • source — if you supply this, it copies this file from the host running cdist over to the target. and if source is '-' (that's a dash, bestie), it takes whatever was written to stdin as the file content. if you don't supply it at all, a default message gets placed onto the target. so like… you always get something, it's giving generous 💖

💅 EXAMPLES 💅

# Use cdist defaults
__motd

# Supply source file from a different type
__motd --source "$__type/files/my-motd"

# Supply source from stdin
__motd --source "-" <<EOF
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream
EOF

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org> — the main character who wrote this 🫡

🍓 COPYING 🍓

Copyright (C) 2020 Nico Schottelius. 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. fr fr, that's the whole license paragraph, don't skip it 💜

ungleich GmbH 2021

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍽️✨ this was cdist-type__motd(7) from cdist version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022. go set up a motd, it's your moment 🌸💖🦋

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