Am Dienstag, den 19.06.2012, 20:04 +0200 schrieb Lennart Poettering: > On Sun, 10.06.12 14:40, Paul Menzel (paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net) wrote:
Dear Lennart,
> > [ Roger Leigh ]
> > * initscripts:
> > - Don't generate or touch /etc/motd. Instead, the dynamic part
> > of
> > /etc/motd is created as /run/motd.dynamic, leaving /etc/motd
> > entirely under the control of the system administrator. If
> > /etc/motd is a symlink to /run/motd, /etc/motd.tail is moved
> > back to /etc/motd. Closes: #353229, #624391, #668307.
> > /etc/motd
> > is not removed if initscripts is purged, since it's not owned
> > by
> > initscripts.
> > - By default, /run/motd is just the output of uname, preserving
> > the
> > existing behaviour. However, should the administrator wish to
> > include dynamic information in the motd, they may write
> > scripts
> > to update /run/motd.dynamic as they please. Closes: #437176.
>
> Yikes, baroque.
>
> > So is systemd’s conversion of that init.d script to a unit file take so
> > long? Can someone point me to a unit/service file for motd so that I can
> > compare it? Unfortunately I could not find one on the net when searching
> > for »fedora systemd motd service file«.
>
> Honestly I always found that this mangling of motd in Debian is
> quite confused. /etc should be considered read-only. Always writing
> to the root fs just because you boot the machine is a really bad idea.
Reading this changelog entry and the init.d script, I could not find
anything that is written dynamically to `/etc` and just to `/run`.
$ ls -al /etc/motd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 3 2008 /etc/motd -> /var/run/motd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286 Apr 3 2008 /etc/motd.tail
$ more /etc/motd*
::::::::::::::
/etc/motd
::::::::::::::
Linux debian-sid 3.2.0-2-686-pae #1 SMP Mon Jun 11 18:27:04 UTC 2012
i686
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free
software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
::::::::::::::
/etc/motd.tail
::::::::::::::
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free
software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
[…]
Thanks,
Paul
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