Listmates, After finding some interesting information in the .bashrc tips at http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/17142.html, I adapted the welcome screen idea to capture useful system information on login. I have to admit, the colors made it pretty cool. (I'm easily amused tonight) I pulled the useful information and created a separate welcome script that can be called as one of your last lines in .bashrc. The .bashrc call is tested against the terminal type and skipped if a 'dump' terminal type is used such as in the case of scp. It was a fun exercise that provided a bit of learning. For what it's worth, here is the call from .bashrc: test "dumb" != $TERM && /home/david/linux/scripts/welcome And, here is the welcome screen script: #!/bin/bash # # Define the colors # black='\e[0;30m' blue='\e[0;34m' green='\e[0;32m' cyan='\e[0;36m' red='\e[0;31m' purple='\e[0;35m' brown='\e[0;33m' lightgray='\e[0;37m' darkgray='\e[1;30m' lightblue='\e[1;34m' lightgreen='\e[1;32m' lightcyan='\e[1;36m' lightred='\e[1;31m' lightpurple='\e[1;35m' yellow='\e[1;33m' white='\e[1;37m' nc='\e[0m' # # Get ifconfig information # netinfo () { echo "-------------------------- Network Information --------------------------" /sbin/ifconfig | awk /'inet addr/ {print $2}' /sbin/ifconfig | awk /'Bcast/ {print $3}' /sbin/ifconfig | awk /'inet addr/ {print $4}' /sbin/ifconfig | awk /'HWaddr/ {print $4,$5}' } # # Define a few functions # # Get the mounted drives and free space # mounted () { echo "---------------------------- Mounted Drives -----------------------------" df -h } # # Check free memory # meminfo () { echo "-------------------------- Memory Information ---------------------------" free -tm } # # Look at uptime # upinfo () { echo "------------------------------- Uptime ----------------------------------" echo "" echo -ne "${lightblue}Uptime for:${green} $HOSTNAME ${lightblue}is ${cyan}";uptime | awk /'up/ {print $3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10}' } # # Show the Welcome Screen # clear echo -e "${red}+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++${white} W E L C O M E ${red}++++++++++++++++++++++++++++${nc}"; echo "" echo -e "${lightblue}Host: \t\t\t ${cyan}$HOSTNAME" echo -ne "${lightblue}Operating System: \t${cyan}" `cat /etc/SuSE-release`; echo "" echo -e "${lightblue}Kernel Information: \t${cyan}" `uname -smr` echo -ne "${lightblue}Hello ${lightred}$USER ${lightblue}today is: \t${cyan}" `date`; echo ""; echo "" echo -e "${white}"; cal -3 echo -ne "${cyan}";netinfo; echo "" echo -ne "${green}";mounted; echo "" echo -ne "${red}";meminfo; echo "" echo -ne "${cyan}";upinfo; echo "" echo -e "${red}+++++++++++++++++++++++++${white} www.rankinlawfirm.com ${red}+++++++++++++++++++++++++${nc}\n" The screen output will look like this: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ W E L C O M E ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Host: rankin-p35a Operating System: openSUSE 10.3 (i586) VERSION = 10.3 Kernel Information: Linux 2.6.22.13-0.3-default i686 Hello david today is: Sun Jan 20 00:14:52 CST 2008 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 -------------------------- Network Information -------------------------- addr:192.168.6.101 addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:192.168.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 HWaddr 00:11:F5:15:2D:83 HWaddr 00:02:3F:DC:E3:3C HWaddr 00-11-F5-15-2D-83-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 ---------------------------- Mounted Drives ----------------------------- Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 15G 7.5G 6.6G 54% / udev 506M 88K 506M 1% /dev /dev/sda7 51G 2.9G 45G 6% /home /dev/sda1 43G 23G 20G 54% /windows/C //nemesis/samba 233G 31G 203G 14% /mnt/nemesis //nemesis/david 233G 31G 203G 14% /mnt/nemesis-david //nemesis/config 233G 31G 203G 14% /mnt/nemesis-cfg //kidsdell/config 17G 5.6G 9.8G 37% /mnt/kids-cfg -------------------------- Memory Information --------------------------- total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1011 992 18 0 104 426 -/+ buffers/cache: 461 549 Swap: 2055 0 2055 Total: 3066 992 2073 ------------------------------- Uptime ---------------------------------- Uptime for: rankin-p35a is 13:57, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.11, 0.14 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.rankinlawfirm.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++ I'm sure there are better ways to do all of this, but it filled the idle time watching the kids. Also, with the number of different boxes I look at, the quick reference to memory and disk information provided a good quick check on a few stats at login. Have fun! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org