🐡 OpenBSD Dynamic Message of the Day Customizer

This project provides an installer and setup helper for a dynamic Message of the Day (MOTD) on OpenBSD.
It automates setup for user or system-wide MOTD, handles dependencies, sets up figlet fonts, enables colorful output, and integrates live weather reports, all dynamically run at each login. This is a standalone installer inspired by dynamic_motd for FreeBSD.

📝 Note that FreeBSD and OpenBSD handle MOTD differently - for the FreeBSD version please see:

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✨ Features

• Installer for a dynamic MOTD specifically built for OpenBSD 🐡
• 🪧 Custom banner text displayed in a rotating set of figlet fonts
• 🌈 Colorful output using lolcat
• 📊 System stats at a glance:
  • 🖥️ Hostname
  • ⏱️ Uptime
  • 🧠 Memory usage
  • 💽 Root filesystem disk usage
• 🌦️ Live weather from wttr.in
• 🫵 User choice: system-wide or per-user MOTD
• 📦 Automatic handling of missing packages (figlet, curl, lolcat-c)
• ⛓️‍💥 Failsafe behavior if a required tool is missing

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⚡ Quick Start

You can install this installer in two ways:

Option 1️⃣: Fetch and Run Directly with SU or root privliges

ftp -o - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlearnscoding/OpenBSD-MOTD-Customizer/refs/heads/main/OpenBSD_MOTD.sh | sh

Option 2️⃣: Download, Inspect, and Run

ftp -o OpenBSD_MOTD.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kevinlearnscoding/OpenBSD-MOTD-Customizer/refs/heads/main/OpenBSD_MOTD.sh
chmod +x OpenBSD_MOTD.sh
./OpenBSD_MOTD.sh

This allows you to review or modify the script before execution.

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⚠️ Requirements & Notes

• OpenBSD 7.0 or later
• Dependencies managed by the script:
  • figlet
  • curl
  • lolcat-c (will attempt to build from source if missing; requires git)
• Unicode support recommended for emojis in MOTD
• Can run system-wide (/etc/motd) or per-user (~/.motd)

⚠️ Note on lolcat-c: The script can either guide you to build manually or build automatically using git and make. Ensure you have git installed if using the automatic option.

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🛠️ What the Installer Does

1. Prompts for configuration:

   • MOTD scope: system-wide or per-user
   • Banner text
   • Weather location
   • Temperature units (F/C)

2. Handles dependencies:

   • Builds lolcat-c if missing
   • Installs missing commands via pkg_add (figlet, curl)

3. Creates a dynamic MOTD script at:

   • System-wide: /usr/local/bin/rc.motd_openbsd
   • User-only: ~/.motd_openbsd

4. Ensures script runs at login by adding it to:

   • /etc/profile (system-wide)
   • ~/.profile (user)

5. Backs up the original MOTD to .motd.backup

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🖼️ Example Output (without color because GitHub filters it out! 👎)

   .oooooo.                                    oooooooooo.   .oooooo..o oooooooooo.   
 d8P'  `Y8b                                   `888'   `Y8b d8P'    `Y8 `888'   `Y8b  
888      888 oo.ooooo.   .ooooo.  ooo. .oo.    888     888 Y88bo.       888      888 
888      888  888' `88b d88' `88b `888P"Y88b   888oooo888'  `"Y8888o.   888      888 
888      888  888   888 888ooo888  888   888   888    `88b      `"Y88b  888      888 
`88b    d88'  888   888 888    .o  888   888   888    .88P oo     .d8P  888     d88' 
 `Y8bood8P'   888bod8P' `Y8bod8P' o888o o888o o888bood8P'  8""88888P'  o888bood8P'   
              888                                                                    
             o888o                                 

Font used: roman
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 🖥️  Hostname : openbsd-testbox
 ⏱️  Uptime   : 2 days
 🧠 Memory    : 1024 MiB used / 4096 MiB total
 💽 Disk      : 8G used / 32G

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 🌦️  Weather:
 New York: 🌤️ +20°C
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📂 Configuration

After installation, edit the MOTD script to adjust:

/usr/local/bin/rc.motd_openbsd  # system-wide
~/.motd_openbsd                  # user-only

• Change banner text
• Adjust fonts or font rotation
• Modify weather URL or other display settings
• Edit system stats output

Changes take effect immediately at next login.

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🙌 Contributing

• Contributions to this installer are welcome
• The underlying concept is inspired by dynamic_motd for FreeBSD.
• For improvements to the MOTD functionality itself, see upstream projects like dynamic_motd.

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📜 License

This project is an installer only for OpenBSD.
It is distributed under the BSD 2-Clause License. The figlet, lolcat-c, curl, and git projects each have their own respective licenses.

All credit for MOTD logic and original concept belongs to sstallion and contributors to dynamic_motd.