timestamp of minion's last state.highstate

[Jared Smith]

I want to add a line to MOTD that I can glance at when logging in to a server and see the last time state.highstate ran.  Where can I grab a timestamp to through into the MOTD?

[C. R. Oldham]

> On Dec 5, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Jared Smith <jsm...@smithbunch.org> wrote:
>
> I want to add a line to MOTD that I can glance at when logging in to a server and see the last time state.highstate ran. Where can I grab a timestamp to through into the MOTD?

Can you just file.manage the MOTD at the end of highstate to put the data there?

--cro

[Jared Smith]

Yes.  I planned on managing with salt.  I want the MOTD to be dynamic and present me with the latest timestamp of when state.highstate was run.  My issue is finding the timestamp it was last run on the minion.  Is there a log file on the minion that has it?

Thanks,
Jared

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[Mike Place]

Grab the mtime of the highstate.p in /var/cache/salt/minion.

-mp

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[Warren Turkal]

Well, you could scrape it from /var/log/salt/minion. However, I think you could also write your motd with "order: last"[1] and use the current date.

[1]http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/ordering.html#the-order-option

wt

[Jared Smith]

Bingo!!  That is what I was looking for.  Thanks.

[Jared Smith]

Warren...I like where you are going with that.  I will certainly look into your idea as well.

thanks