This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 10.2ubuntu4
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base-files (10.2ubuntu4) eoan; urgency=medium
* debian/motd-news.timer: Change the timer to use an OnCalendar entry
instead since neither OnActiveSec nor OnUnitActiveSec accomplished the
intended goal. (LP: #1829968)
-- Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Jul 2019 15:30:39 -0700
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Eoan)
Status: In Progress => Fix Released
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Title:
motd [on at least some instances] does not auto-update daily
Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in base-files source package in Bionic:
Triaged
Status in base-files source package in Cosmic:
New
Status in base-files source package in Disco:
New
Status in base-files source package in Eoan:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[Impact]
motd-news timer is not properly configured and may not run regularly so long
running systems will not get an updated motd
[Test Case]
The system being tested must have curl installed - base-files does not depend
on it because reasons.
1) Run 'systemctl status mot-news.timer'
2) Observe that the Trigger section is n/a
With the version of the package from -proposed the Trigger section
should instead contain something like the following:
Trigger: Mon 2019-06-17 11:42:25 PDT; 20min left
One should also wait to ensure that the trigger actually ran and that
/var/cache/motd-news has been updated.
[Regression Potential]
I can't think of any on the client side as the job wasn't working at all but
it may cause extra load on the motd server.
Original Description
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I have a VM running on AWS. It was launched on May 9th:
$ uptime
05:26:21 up 12 days, 6:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
$ date
Wed May 22 05:26:24 UTC 2019
I touched none of the system defaults, and yet the motd has not
updated automatically.
$ ls -l /var/cache/motd-news
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 9 22:53 /var/cache/motd-news
The systemd timer unit looks like this:
$ systemctl status motd-news.timer
● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: active (elapsed) since Thu 2019-05-09 22:51:58 UTC; 1 weeks 5
days ago
Trigger: n/a
May 09 22:51:58 ip-172-31-23-224 systemd[1]: Started Message of the
Day.
If I run /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news --force manually, the file
does update correctly.
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