Setting up my MOTD on a Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS

Some of my servers have a fancy motd…
I like them… unfortunately my new server didn’t had it.

I had to run

apt-get install landscape-common
dpkg-reconfigure landscape-common

On dkpg-reconfigure I’v selected Run sysinfo on every login.

Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-63-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
You have new mail.
Last login: Fri Oct 23 10:28:37 2015 from es2-84-XXX-XXX-XXX.netvisao.pt

System information as of Fri Oct 23 10:28:59 CEST 2015

System load: 0.06 Processes: 245
Usage of /: 81.9% of 411.33GB Users logged in: 1
Memory usage: 9% IP address for em0: 195.154.XXX.XXX
Swap usage: 0%

Graph this data and manage this system at:
https://landscape.canonical.com/
pjrfigueiredo@sd-48392:~$

To have the number of updates/security updates we need to run the following apt-get command….

sudo apt-get install update-notifier-common

This way we will see also

20 packages can be updated.
8 updates are security updates.

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