The following fortunes in /usr/share/games/fortunes/ubuntu-server-tips contain URLs that are no longer valid:
'etckeeper' allows you to save changes you make to /etc in a bazaar
repository. Useful to track and revert
changes. http://tinyurl.com/etckeeper (The URL registered at tinyurl.com points to https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/etckeeper.html.)
Need a little refresh on networking concept? Take a look at the networking
section of the server guide.
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/networking.html
Keep your servers time in sync, use the ntpd package.
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/NTP.html
Package updates can be automated on your server using the
unattended-upgrades package.
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/automatic-updates.html
These could be fixed by pointing to the most recent (or perhaps the next) LTS release server guide URL. Even better would be for the installer script to grab the version of Ubuntu from the installation and create the URL on the fly. Maybe I'll submit a patch that does this.
The best I could come up with was to use a command to grab last year's last release (which should always be a reliable value, right?). Something like this in the debian rules script:
sed -i 's/@@LASTRELEAS
Where file is either ubuntu-server-tips or the language-specific version of that file. I'm no Makefile magician, so my efforts to actually implement this were brief. If I need to put a little more effort into it, I'd be happy to do so. As a consolation gift, I've attached a patch to fix the current problem, though it won't really work for long.