On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 05:18:07PM +0000, Santiago Vila wrote: > I've added the file as /etc/update-motd.d/10-uname to mimic > Ubuntu style.
That's great, thanks for the quick turnaround! > I took a look at what Ubuntu does. > > Then I took a look at one of the links in the wiki page, > the rant about motd becoming bloated: > > http://web.archive.org/web/20131205090841/http://deadmemes.net/2010/10/19/fear-and-loathing-in-debianubuntu-or-who-needs-etcmotd That sounds like a lot of ranting and FUD for no apparent reason other than change aversity ("decades of expected behavior") and with arguments like the size of the libpam-modules source package?! > I'm happy to recover the uname thing, because it was lost, but I just > hope people does not start asking for things to be added to > the default update-motd.d... Well people may, but you can always say no or defer them to other packages :) I agree with you that base-files should provide just the bare minimum. For what it's worth, we use the /etc/update-motd.d functionality at work (at Wikimedia) via automated puppet code to provision various stanzas in the systems that inform the sysadmin trying to login of things like which distro/kernel the system runs, when it was first installed, which puppet roles have been applied to the server, how long ago was the last puppet run, if it's the active or backup of a pair of HA servers etc. I've found it as a pretty useful functionality overall and I'm glad it's now working in Debian out of the box :) Thanks again, Faidon
