PiStatsMOTD

Message of the Day with Detailed Stats for the Raspberry Pi

Tested with Raspbian and RetroPie distributions. No additional packages are required to be installed.

Download and save the pistats.sh script to the /etc/profile.d/ folder on your Raspberry Pi then follow the steps below.

1. Change owner to root. sudo chown root:root /etc/profile.d/pistats.sh
2. Make the script executable. sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/pistats.sh
3. Remove the existing message of the day. sudo rm /etc/motd
4. Disable the last login information from the sshd service. sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config - Uncomment the line 'PrintLastLog yes' and change it to 'PrintLastLog no'
5. Disable the system information line. sudo nano /etc/update-motd.d/10-uname - Comment out the line 'uname -snrvm'
6. If installing on RetroPie, remove the existing MOTD. sudo nano ~/.bashrc - Comment out the second last line 'retropie_welcome'
7. Change the logo to the RetroPie, PiHole or PiStick variations by commenting or renaming the default Ras-Pi logo and uncommenting the logo of your choice.
8. Reboot the Pi sudo reboot

Optional if using UFW

1. For the UFW status to run without a sudo password, add a new sudoers file sudo nano /etc/sudoers.d/ufwstatus
2. Add the following two lines

Cmnd_Alias      UFWSTATUS = /usr/sbin/ufw status
%ufwstatus      ALL=NOPASSWD: UFWSTATUS

3. Create a group for the users sudo groupadd -r ufwstatus
4. Add your users to the group sudo gpasswd --add pi ufwstatus