Ubuntu
base-files package

  1. Bug #550561
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 550561

Revision history for this message
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 550561] Re: /etc/motd contains duplicate welcome/documentation blurbs on lucid

The run-parts call is now handled by the pam_motd module (C program).

It's run against everything in /etc/update-motd.d at login.

Quickly-running scripts just get run on every login.

Ones that take a long time to run (updates-available,
upgrade-available), or ones who's information doesn't expire quickly
should cache their data in /var/run and background an update when it
determines that it's data is stale.

The /etc/update-motd.d/00-header script prints /etc/motd.tail if it
exists. As far as I can tell, motd.tail should really be empty on
most modern Lucid systems, and should now only be used for the Admin
to manually jam some information in the MOTD.