With dynamic_motd there is a quite nice MOTD replacement to make the boring greeting via SSH or console more appealing and informative. This replacement is quickly installed after adapting the package source with pkg install -y dynamic_motd figlet.
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Firstly, the old MOTD (Message of the day) service must be deactivated with sysrc update_motd=‘NO’, otherwise they will get in each other's way. With cp /usr/local/share/examples/dynamic_motd/rc.motd /usr/local/etc/rc.motd and cp /usr/local/share/examples/dynamic_motd/motd.subr /usr/local/etc/motd.subr the example files are copied. Finally, the new service is activated and started with service dynamic_motd enable & service dynamic_motd start. The next time you log in, it will look something like this:
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FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC
Supermicro X12STL-IF 1.01 ZM299999999
Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2334 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Host: coretwo (192.168.1.100 10.0.0.1)
Up: 3 hours, 52 minutes
CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle
Mem: 6936K Active, 34M Inact, 537M Wired, 56K Buf, 62G Free
ARC: 111M Total, 13M MFU, 94M MRU, 20K Anon, 517K Header, 3889K Other
21M Compressed, 103M Uncompressed, 4.83:1 Ratio
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free
Load: 0.08, 0.09, 0.08sysrc update_motd="NO"
cp /usr/local/share/examples/dynamic_motd/rc.motd /usr/local/etc/rc.motd
cp /usr/local/share/examples/dynamic_motd/motd.subr /usr/local/etc/motd.subr
service dynamic_motd enable
service dynamic_motd start