Hello Ola,
* Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-04-08 23:22 +0200]:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/motd
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-02-19 21:46 /etc/motd -> /var/run/motd
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/lib/vservers/ns/etc/motd
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-04-06 13:18 /var/lib/vservers/ns/etc/motd
> -> /var/run/motd
> >
> > They both point to the same file. Maybe the right thing to do is
> > creating a new motd for the guests, rather than pointing to
> > /var/run/motd?
>
> Emm yes. This is obviously a standard behaviour that must have changed since
> woody or something.
>
> But this must mean that this file will be regenerated at reboot, right?
Yes, by /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh:
# Update motd
uname -snrvm > /var/run/motd
[ -f /etc/motd.tail ] && cat /etc/motd.tail >> /var/run/motd
However, I do not believe that this makes the bug less important,
especially on machines that are not rebooted often like servers.
ciao,
ema
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