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MystX

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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Landscape for Arch

Hi everyone,
The title says it all: Is there a program like landscape on Ubuntu, for Arch?
It looks rather commercialized so i would wager there is not, but I am specifically looking for the trick it does with the ssh MOTD, printing out system stats and package upgrades when you log in.

Thanks

Last edited by MystX (2010-08-08 11:31:19)

Ramses de Norre

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Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: Landscape for Arch

Just a quick thought, you could try to feed sshd a fifo as MOTD file and feed the fifo with a daemon. I have no idea whether this will work, though.

MystX

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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Re: Landscape for Arch

Yea..
That sounds rather complicated. And I was hoping for a similar package already available for Arch, or a way to install the Ubuntu version on Arch.
No one knows of such a program?

Proofrific

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 215

Re: Landscape for Arch

You can run remote commands using ssh.  For example, to get a list of installed packages on "computer," you can run

ssh user@computer 'pacman -Qq'

A login script to query each of your computers could work for system stats, package upgrades, etc.

To avoid typing the password for every machine, you can use public key cryptography (see, for example, http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~ranga/not … pass.html).

trusktr

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Re: Landscape for Arch

Interesting! I have 5 Arch systems at home so something like this would be handy.

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