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I have a local server running Ubuntu 10.04 headlessly. When I ssh to the server I get some core information about the system, such as 

System load:  0.0                Processes:           XXX
Usage of /:   2.5% of 452.69GB   Users logged in:     0
Memory usage: 10%                IP address for lo:   XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Swap usage:   0%                 IP address for eth0: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
Temperature:  40 C

What is the command to get this information to print again? I tried looking in the rc.local and the bash.bashrc file to see how this was run, but I could not find anything.

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The command is

landscape-sysinfo

it is run from /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo when you have installed the package landscape-common.

As of Ubuntu 12.04 (perhaps earlier), update-motd is run at login time by the PAM module pam_motd.so. Originally, update-motd was a cron job.

landscape-sysinfo is a part of the package landscape-common, so if it's missing you can install it by the command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install landscape-common
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    slight mistake, it should be /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo not /etc/update-motd.d/run 50-landscape-sysinfo
    – Nick HS
    Oct 17, 2010 at 15:16
  • I've installed landscape-common but don't see the information when I log in again. Do I have to reboot the server?
    – Dan Dascalescu
    Jul 21, 2014 at 21:42
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    Possibly useful additional info (referring to 14.04.3): # update-motd appears to dynamically update /var/run/motd.dynamic and "interestingly" when you log-in you actually get the output from the previous run. # landscape-sysinfo accepts some useful options (which can be set in /etc/update-motd.d/50-landscape-sysinfo), such as --exclude-sysinfo-plugins=Network
    – sxc731
    Nov 14, 2015 at 11:21

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