MOTD

Plugin from Derek Kaser

Overview

Display system information (CPU, memory, disk usage, service status, etc.) after SSH/console login.

Introduction

License: GPL v3 GitHub Releases Last Commit GitHub Downloads (all assets, all releases) GitHub Downloads (all assets, latest release)

Configuration

Configuration can be stored at /boot/config/plugins/motd/config.yaml.

To view the full configuration, run motd --dump-config

Global

  • warnings_only will hide content unless there is a warning, per-module override available
  • display arrange module output in columns. Either one or two modules can be included per row.
  • border draw borders around the output of each module.
display:
  - [sysinfo]
  - [docker, cpu]
  - [services, networks]
  - [user-drives, system-drives]

Header

  • show display fancy header at beginning of output
  • use_hostname if true, display the hostname. If false, display custom_text
  • font select font to use for output. Run figurine -l to get a list of available fonts, or figurine -sl Test to view a sample of all fonts.

Generic options

  • warnings_only overrides global setting for that module only
  • border overrides global setting for that module only

CPU temperatures

  • warn/crit are temperatures to consider warning or critical level

Disk usage

  • warn/crit percentage of disk space used before it is considered a warning or critical level, default is 70% and 90% respectively

Docker

  • ignore list of ignored container names

Network

  • show_ipv4 / show_ipv6 show IPv4/IPv6 addresses in output

System information

No extra config

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Repository
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dkaser/unraid-motd/main/plugin/motd.plg
Last Updated2026-10-16
First Seen2024-10-15