tgwaste wrote:why rely on the motd for the current IP addres?

hostname -I

I'm not relying on the motd.

The boot output already lists the IP address without even needing "hostname -l"

I just wanted to know how to make the motd more dynamic in this way.

There is one problem with this, the IP address is not updated in the motd each reboot. It is only updated by the update-motd.sh which you created. So, how to run this update-motd.sh (or otherwise update the motd) at boot before the motd is actually displayed (ie: in order to get the current IP addre...