On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:44:15 PM Andrew Pollock wrote: > Package: initscripts > Version: 2.86.ds1-61 > Severity: minor > > I encountered this bug on Ubuntu 10.04, but the maintainer script in > question appears unmodified from Debian. > > Basically, the postinst of initscripts appears to copy the contents of > /etc/motd into /etc/motd.tail, if it doesn't exist. > > This appears to be benign on Debian, but on Ubuntu, which will dynamically > create an /etc/motd out of shell fragments in /etc/update-motd.d and > /etc/motd.tail, it has the undesired effect of caused duplicated stale > content. > > Ubuntu recently pushed an updated initscripts package to 10.04, which > caused the problem I describe. > > More information in > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/634387 > > In short, I don't think the postinst should be creating an /etc/motd.tail > if one doesn't exist already.
I do not completely understand this statement. Do you mean: postinst should never create /etc/motd.tail at all? > I also don't think it should go putting anything in it if it does exist. Tend to agree with this one. I'd be happy to look at/apply a patch if you could please whip one up? Thanks, Kel. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
