This is the motd module. It can be used to maintain a complex and dynamic /etc/motd file e.g.
********************************************************** * Welcome to host.example.org running CentOS 5.3 * blahs blah * 2013-12-11 - Package X was installed. * Package X is really good at solving the universe's * problems. * 2013-12-25 - It is christmas day. **********************************************************
Old news is automatically rotated after 30 days and stored in files in an /etc/motd-archive.
# Initialize motd module.
include 'motd'
# Specify some headers to allways show.
motd::header {'welcome': message => "Welcome to box ${::fqdn}"}
motd::header {'message' message => "Please behave"}
# Specify a time stamped short notice for motd.
motd::news {'It is christmas': date => '2013-12-25'}
# Specify a time stamped long notice for motd.
motd::news {'package X':
date => '2013-12-11',
message => 'Package X is really good at solving the universe\'s problems.',
require => Package['X']
}In addition a default header can also be specified via hiera, see params.pp for details.
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