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I've been using Ubuntu Server for quite a while, and I like seeing this when I log on over SSH:



Welcome to Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-35-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

System information as of Mon Apr 21 02:06:46 UTC 2014

System load: 0.0 Processes: 88
Usage of /: 64.8% of 7.75GB Users logged in: 0
Memory usage: 64% IP address for eth0: xx.xx.xxx.xxx
Swap usage: 0%

Graph this data and manage this system at:
https://landscape.canonical.com/

Get cloud support with Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest:
http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/cloud

Use Juju to deploy your cloud instances and workloads:
https://juju.ubuntu.com/#cloud-raring

0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

*** /dev/xvda1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***

Last login: Fri Apr 18 21:29:50 2014 from bla-bla-bla.foo.bar.net
ubuntu@ip-xx-yy-zzz-aaa:~$


After upgrading one of my servers to 14.04, though, I only see this:



$ ssh closet
Last login: Sun Apr 20 19:42:57 2014 from 192.168.0.7
me@server1:~$


I don't like this as much. How can I bring back the old welcome screen?


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From the information gathered in the comments, you don't have the /etc/motd file. Since this is just a symlink to /var/run/motd and you confirmed that you have that file just recreate the link with:



sudo ln -s /var/run/motd /etc/motd  


Reboot the server.






Trivia:




  • motd stands for "Message of the day". It contains the information you see when you boot the server.


  • The scripts in the /etc/update-motd.d folder update the motd on boot.



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