Useful & colourful MOTD

At home, I run 3 machines as small servers, but I haven’t set up a monitoring system. Honestly, I probably never will.

So I did the next best thing: a nice MOTD.

MOTD example

Inspiration

A friend who’s also an IT engineer showed me this reddit post, and the associated Github repo.

These two articles were also quite useful ownyourbits.com article and linuxconfig.org.

Scripts

RAM usage

#!/bin/bash                                                                                                                                     

bar_fill="="                                                                                                                                        
bar_empty="\033[1;90m=\033[0m"                                                                                                                                                                       
endpost_left="["                                                                                                                                                    
endpost_right="]"                                                                                                                                                       
line="   "

echo -e "\n\033[1m\e[38;5;117mRAM\e[0m\033[0m"
echo -e "   Total\tUsed\t\tFree\t\tBuff/Cache"

free | cut -d':' -f 2 -sz | while read totl used free shared bufc available rest; do
  totl_mb=$(echo "scale=2;"$totl" / 1024" | bc -l)
  used_mb=$(echo "scale=2;"$used" / 1024" | bc -l)
  free_mb=$(echo "scale=2;"$free" / 1024" | bc -l)
  bufc_mb=$(echo "scale=2;"$bufc" / 1024" | bc -l)

  echo -e "$line"$totl_mb"MB\t"$used_mb"MB\t"$free_mb"MB\t"$bufc_mb"MB"
  
  output=$endpost_left
  percent=$(echo "scale=0; 100 * "$used" / "$totl | bc -l)
    # 0-69 colored green
    for ((i=1; i<=34; i++))
    do
        if [ $(($percent / 2 + 2)) -gt $i ]
        then
            output+="\033[1;92m$bar_fill\033[0m"
        else
            output+=$bar_empty
        fi
    done

    # 70-84 colored yellow
    for ((i=35; i<=42; i++))
    do
        if [ $(($percent / 2 + 2)) -gt $i ]
        then
            output+="\033[1;93m$bar_fill\033[0m"
        else
            output+=$bar_empty
        fi
    done

    # 85-100 colored red
    for ((i=43; i<=50; i++))
    do
        if [ $(($percent / 2 + 2)) -gt $i ]
        then
            output+="\033[1;91m$bar_fill\033[0m"
        else
            output+=$bar_empty
        fi
    done
    output+=$endpost_right" "
    output+="\033[1;90m"$(echo "scale=2; 100 * "$used" / "$totl | bc -l)"% used\033[0m"
  echo -e "   "$output
done

Disk usage

#!/bin/bash

bar_fill="="
bar_empty="\033[1;90m=\033[0m"
endpost_left="["
endpost_right="]\n"
line="   "
declare -a df_disks=()


# df command to get disk usage
declare df_disks=$(df -h | grep '^/dev' | grep -v '/dev/loop' | grep -v '/boot/efi')

echo ""
echo -e "\033[1m\e[38;5;117mFilesystem\e[0m\033[0m $line     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on"

IFS=$'\n'
for df_line in $df_disks
do
    echo "$line$df_line"

    output=$endpost_left
    diskPercent="$(sed 's/%.*//' <<< "$df_line" | grep -oP "\S+$" )"
    
    # 0-69 colored green
    for ((i=1; i<=34; i++))
    do
        if [ $(($diskPercent / 2 + 2)) -gt $i ]
        then
            output+="\033[1;92m$bar_fill\033[0m"
        else
            output+=$bar_empty
        fi
    done

    # 70-84 colored yellow
    for ((i=35; i<=42; i++))
    do
        if [ $(($diskPercent / 2 + 2)) -gt $i ]
        then
            output+="\033[1;93m$bar_fill\033[0m"
        else
            output+=$bar_empty
        fi
    done

    # 85-100 colored red
    for ((i=43; i<=50; i++))
    do
        if [ $(($diskPercent / 2 + 2)) -gt $i ]
        then
            output+="\033[1;91m$bar_fill\033[0m"
        else
            output+=$bar_empty
        fi
    done
    output+=$endpost_right
    printf "$line$output"
done

Services

#!/bin/bash

ServiceFile="/etc/update-motd.d/services-list.txt"

declare -a serviceStatus=()
declare -a servicesName=()

readarray -t servicesName < $ServiceFile

# Get status of all services
for service in "${servicesName[@]}"
do
    if [ -n "$service" ]; then
        serviceStatus+=($(systemctl is-active "$service.service"))
    fi
done

# Maximum column width
width=$((49-2))

# Current line and line length
line="   "
lineLen=0

echo ""
echo -e "\033[1m\e[38;5;117mServices running\e[0m\033[0m"

longest=$(wc -L $ServiceFile | sed -e 's/\s.*$//')

for i in ${!serviceStatus[@]}
do
    # Next line and next line length
    next=" ${serviceName[$i]}: \e[5m${serviceStatus[$i]}"
    nextLen=$((1+${#next}))

    # If the current line will exceed the max column with then echo the current line and start a new line
    if [[ $((lineLen+nextLen)) -gt width ]]; then
    echo -e "$line"
    lineLen=0
    line="   "
    fi

    lineLen=$((lineLen+nextLen))

    # Color the next line green if it's active, else red
    if [[ "${serviceStatus[$i]}" == "active" ]]; then
    line+="${servicesName[$i]}: \e[32m✔ ${serviceStatus[$i]}\e[0m "
    else
    line+="${servicesName[$i]}: \e[31m▲ ${serviceStatus[$i]}\e[0m "
    fi
done

# echo what is left
echo -e "$line"

Uptime & CPU Load

#!/bin/bash

# R  cup  rer le loadavg
read one five fifteen rest < /proc/loadavg

echo ""
echo -e "\033[1m\e[38;5;117mUptime\e[0m\033[0m"
echo "   "$(uptime -p)
echo -e "   since"  $(uptime -s)
echo ""
echo -e "\033[1m\e[38;5;117mCPU Load\e[0m\033[0m"
echo -e "   1min\t\t5min\t\t15min"
echo -e "   $one\t\t$five\t\t$fifteen\n"

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