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  1. Bug #1829968
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Comment 2 for bug 1829968

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I booted multiple virtual machines to see if I could discover a difference among releases and observed the following:

bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:~$ systemctl status motd-news.timer
● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (waiting) since Wed 2019-06-12 15:40:07 PDT; 9min ago
  Trigger: Thu 2019-06-13 04:29:53 PDT; 12h left

Jun 12 15:40:07 clean-cosmic-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day.

bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl status motd-news.timer
● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (elapsed) since Wed 2019-06-12 15:41:33 PDT; 8min ago
  Trigger: n/a

Jun 12 15:41:33 clean-bionic-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day.

bdmurray@clean-disco-amd64:~$ systemctl status motd-news.timer
● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (elapsed) since Wed 2019-06-12 15:42:11 PDT; 7min ago
  Trigger: n/a

Jun 12 15:42:11 clean-disco-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day.

My Disco desktop:
[ 3:37PM 11006 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:~/source-trees/daisy/trunk ]
 $ systemctl status motd-news.timer
● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (waiting) since Mon 2019-06-03 16:01:27 PDT; 1 weeks 1 days ago
  Trigger: Wed 2019-06-12 22:26:26 PDT; 6h left

Jun 03 16:01:27 impulse systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day.

My Bionic server:
[ 3:43PM 5419 ] [ bdmurray@bizarro:/tmp ]
 $ systemctl status motd-news.timer
● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (elapsed) since Mon 2019-05-06 09:17:35 PDT; 1 months 6 days ago
  Trigger: n/a

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable.

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to which systems received the Trigger.