SadMotd

Add a MOTD to your server inspired by http://twitter.com/SadServer

OS Compatibility: CentOS* , Debian, Ubuntu.

* See Requirements Section

Configuration

You will need to edit sadmotd.py to include the API keys needed to fetch the SadServer tweets.

Inside sadmotd.py you'll find 4 variables:

c_key = '<replace with consumer key>'
c_secret = '<replace with consumer secret>'
axx_token = '<replace with access token key>'
axx_secret = '<replace with access token secret>'

A little background:

• c_key is the consumer key you get when you create an app with Twitter, once you've done that you can get your consumer key.
• c_secret you can get the same way you can get the consumer key.
• axx_token is the access token key you generate from your new twitter app.
• axx_secret you can get this the same way as the access token key

Running

You can run this python script by simply running:

sudo ./sadmotd.py

or

sudo python sadmotd.py

Requirements

Uses the following Python libraries (and their dependencies):

• python-twitter

python-twitter can easily be installed with pip by running:

pip install python-twitter

For CentOS: for this to work on CentOS it requires the lsb_release package be installed.

This can be done by running:

sudo yum -y install redhat-lsb

Notes:

If you run into python throwing an InsecurePlatformWarning just run:

pip install requests[security]

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