**Dynamic** MOTD?

[AmestrisXServe]

I posted about this before, but I wasn't too clear in the post or the post title.

What I need to know is how to set dynamic variables in a MOTD:

Has anyone a MPTD that shows dynamoc system information, such as the home path of the user, free ram, available disc space (for the user), last login, and so forth?

(It would also be useful is someone could give an example of proper colour code usage in a dynamic script on OSX, although I can do that myself.)

For example, what would be the OSX equivalent of this:

date=`date`
load=`cat /proc/loadavg | awk '{print $1}'`
root_usage=`df -h / | awk '/\// {print $(NF-1)}'`
memory_usage=`free -m | awk '/Mem/ { printf("%3.1f%%", $3/$2*100) }'`
swap_usage=`free -m | awk '/Swap/ { printf("%3.1f%%", $3/$2*100) }'`
users=`users | wc -w`

echo "System information as of: $date"
echo
printf "System load:\t%s\tMemory usage:\t%s\n" $load $memory_usage
printf "Usage on /:\t%s\tSwap usage:\t%s\n" $root_usage $swap_usage
printf "Local users:\t%s\n" $users
echo


...or this....


# * Calculate last login
set lastlog [exec -- lastlog -u $var(user)]
set ll(1) [lindex $lastlog 7]
set ll(2) [lindex $lastlog 8]
set ll(3) [lindex $lastlog 9]
set ll(4) [lindex $lastlog 10]
set ll(5) [lindex $lastlog 6]

# * Calculate current system uptime
set uptime [exec -- /usr/bin/cut -d. -f1 /proc/uptime]
set up(days) [expr {$uptime/60/60/24}]
set up(hours) [expr {$uptime/60/60%24}]
set up(mins) [expr {$uptime/60%60}]
set up(secs) [expr {$uptime%60}]

# * Calculate usage of home directory
set usage [lindex [exec -- /usr/bin/du -ms $var(home)] 0]

# * Calculate SSH logins:
set logins [exec -- w -s]
set log(c) [lindex $logins 5]

# * Calculate processes
set psu [lindex [exec -- ps U $var(user) h | wc -l] 0]
set psa [lindex [exec -- ps -A h | wc -l] 0]

# * Calculate current system load
set loadavg [exec -- /bin/cat /proc/loadavg]
set sysload(1) [lindex $loadavg 0]
set sysload(5) [lindex $loadavg 1]
set sysload(15) [lindex $loadavg 2]

# * Calculate Memory
set memory [exec -- free -m]
set mem(t) [lindex $memory 7]
set mem(u) [lindex $memory 8]
set mem(f) [lindex $memory 9]
set mem(c) [lindex $memory 16]
set mem(s) [lindex $memory 19]

puts " Last Login....: $ll(1) $ll(2) $ll(3) $ll(4) from $ll(5)"
puts " Uptime........: $up(days)days $up(hours)hours $up(mins)minutes $up(secs)seconds"
puts " Load..........: $sysload(1) (1minute) $sysload(5) (5minutes) $sysload(15) (15minutes)"
puts " Memory MB.....: $mem(t) Used: $mem(u) Free: $mem(f) Free Cached: $mem(c) Swap In Use: $mem(s)"
puts " Disk Usage....: You're using ${usage}MB in $var(home)"
puts " SSH Logins....: There are currently $log(c) users logged in."

Running OSX Server 10.5.8.