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#!/usr/local/bin/python3
import sys
import random
##############################################
## Uses a skeleton motd plus a random quote ##
## to produce a motd with a nifty quote. ##
##------------------------------------------##
## <gbmor> ben@gbmor.dev ##
##############################################
def pullfile(filename):
with open(filename, 'r') as filesrc:
filedata = filesrc.read()
return filedata
def rotatemotd(motd):
motdmsgs = ['Abandon hope all ye who enter here',
'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. - Prospero, The Tempest',
'"New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It\'s all about how people choose to use it."',
'"If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die." - Maya Angelou',
'"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan',
'"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C Clarke',
'"The biggest mistake I made was believing if I cast a beautiful net, I\'d catch only beautiful things."',
'"A punk rock song won\'t ever change the world, but I can tell you about a couple that changed me." - Pat the Bunny',
'"What we know is a drop, what we don\'t know is an ocean." - Isaac Newton']
motdchoice = random.choice(motdmsgs)
try:
with open("/etc/motd", "w") as etcmotd:
etcmotd.write(motd)
etcmotd.write(motdchoice)
etcmotd.write("\n")
etcmotd.write("\n")
except:
print("Unable to open /etc/motd for writing. Who are you?")
sys.exit(0)
if __name__=="__main__":
motdskel = pullfile("/admin/misc/motd.txt")
rotatemotd(motdskel)
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