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When I'm logging into a tty virtual shell, I obtain system information of the computer, like system load, memory usage, hard disc space on / ...

I installed Ubuntu on two others computer but they don't show me system informations on tty virtual login, why? Which packet or script makes this information available?

Thanks for your help.

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Thanks for your answers, I found the name of the packet to install on this page: Where does the System Information information come from on login? It's the packet landscape-common which gives system informations to motd (thanks Darael). After I installed this packet, I can manually obtain system informations with typing: #landscape-sysinfo

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    You should paste the exact information you see on your screen. There are a range of way to show 'system information of the computer, like system load, memory usage, hard disc space on / ...', people do not know what program is producing them if you do not paste the output.
    – Fish Monitor
    Apr 5, 2012 at 2:20
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What is output at login-time is generally controlled on *nix boxen (and, by extension, Ubuntu boxen) by the /etc/issue (controls what gets shown before the login: prompt) and /etc/motd (gets printed upon successful login) files. On Ubuntu, the former is a single file the latter is autogenerated from /etc/motd.tail. See also man issue (for /etc/issue - it will point you at man agetty, so look at that as well) and man motd and man motd.tail, which will give information on the motd files.

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If you want to see these info, you can put the following code in your ~/.profile:

uname -a
w
df -hT /

I use similar techniques to see my server status once upon login.

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  • Thanks Fossilet, this didn't answer directly to my question, but it's a very interesting way to obtain the same result or more powerful solution.
    – Le Gluon du Net
    Apr 4, 2012 at 9:16

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