Remove Ubuntu sysinfo on user login

Do you also hate the (not so) slight delay for the system information to appear when you login to your Ubuntu Server console? Here are a couple of ways how to change the displayed information or even get completely rid of it.

Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64)
  * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

System information as of Thu Jul 31 12:12:12 CEST 2014

System load: 0.08               Processes: 86
Usage of /: 11.9% of 155.51GB   Users logged in: 0
Memory usage: 72%               IP address for eth0: 74.125.12.12
Swap usage: 0%

Graph this data and manage this system at:
  https://landscape.canonical.com/

Disable with reconfigure

To hide system information you can either remove the landscape-common package or just run dpkg-reconfigure again and choose to not display the landscape-sysinfo on login.

dpkg-reconfigure landscape-common

Remove the package

apt-get remove --purge landscape-common

Choose what to display

Alternatively, you can choose to display just certain parts on sysinfo.

Edit /etc/landscape/client.conf, and add them comma separated:

[sysinfo]
exclude_sysinfo_plugins = LandscapeLink,Temperature,Processes

You can remove any of these plugins (information):

Load, Disk, Memory, Temperature, Processes, LoggedInUsers, LandscapeLink, Network

Or just test it on the command line:

landscape-sysinfo  --exclude-sysinfo-plugins=Temperature,LandscapeLink,Processes

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