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motd: maintain a /etc/motd file with interesting info about the TAC #57

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Not anyone looks at the web interface or the display of the TAC.
These users will not be notified about updates or issues with the TAC.

Add a third information vector so we can reach these users as well.

This will result in messages like these when a user logs into the TAC via ssh and there is some information to display:

leonard@fulladder ~> ssh root@lxatac-00011
Last login: Fri Jan 26 17:53:06 2024 from 192.168.94.2
Welcome to you TAC!

- NOTE: The device under test is currently powered on.

leonard@fulladder ~> ssh root@lxatac-00011
Last login: Fri Jan 26 17:52:05 2024 from 192.168.94.2
Welcome to you TAC!

- WARNING: The LXA IOBus power supply is overloaded.

leonard@fulladder ~> ssh root@lxatac-00011
Last login: Fri Jan 26 17:53:20 2024 from 192.168.94.2
Welcome to you TAC!

- WARNING: The USB port power supply is overloaded.

I think it would be nice to show a random tip if we have nothing else to say, but that should go into a separate PR.

TODO before merging:

  • Some cleanup and comments

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hnez commented Mar 1, 2024

I think a structured list with colored - info:, - warning: and - error: prefixes would be more readable than this free-form text variant.

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hnez commented Jun 14, 2024

Hi, I've re-worked this PR now and think it is ready for review.

The failing cargo clippy runs are not caused by this PR - cargo clippy just learned a few new tricks that also make it fail on main.
This should be fixed by #70, which should be merged first, so we can see the CI succeed before merging.

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Just one minor nitpick on the actual messages.

Overall I like the way to present the user with some useful information at login.
(Maybe this will even increase the number of installed updates?)

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hnez commented Jul 26, 2024

Hi @KarlK90, could you have a look at this PR?
Users often tell me that they were not aware of any new updates, because they do not look at the web interface of display of the TAC.

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Not anyone looks at the web interface or the display of the TAC.
This gives us a third vector to convey information to the user,
by showing messages on ssh login.

Use bind-mounts to put the highly volatile file itself to /var/run
and point to it from /etc.

Signed-off-by: Leonard Göhrs <[email protected]>
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hnez commented Aug 6, 2024

This PR was superceded by #77, which implements some of the features of this PR in a more elegant way.
See this summary for details.

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