AI Server MOTD (Message Of The Day)

Show information about your AI/Deep Learning server in a nice format, including GPU utilization and VRAM usage 🚀

Installation

Clone the repository and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/fedebotu/ai-server-motd.git && cd ai-server-motd

Displaying

To display on login via SSH, copy the messages you want in /etc/update-motd.d. For example, if you want to use 30-nvidia:

sudo cp 30-nvidia /etc/update-motd.d/

The messages will be displayed in alphabetical order (eg. 10-, 20-...).

Testing

You may test if you MOTD (the dynamic part) works with

run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/

If some parts do not show, check if the permissions are set to 755 (chmod 755 [FILE])

Bugfix

If there is no display, you may check the following answer from Stackoverflow:

The file in /etc/ssh/sshd_config needed to be set this line UsePAM yes. That allowed the interactive login to trigger the file /etc/pam.d/sshd that contained session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic to run, which in turn ran the files in /etc/update-motd.d/ to trigger my MOTD when I login.

Also, there may be no display in case of errors. Make sure to test as described above.

Extra

To use the 10-hostname-color, you may run the following on a Ubuntu server:

sudo apt-get install update-motd
sudo apt-get install -y figlet
sudo apt-get install lolcat

Alternatively install sudo snap install lolcat-c - note that you need snap install with you can install with sudo apt install snap.

Credits

https://github.com/yboetz/motd https://github.com/bcyran/fancy-motd ... and ChatGPT ofc