Bionic verification
Current version:
$ apt-cache policy base-files
base-files:
Installed: 10.1ubuntu2.9
Candidate: 10.1ubuntu2.9
Version table:
*** 10.1ubuntu2.9 500
500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Uptime is there:
ubuntu@bionic-motd-news-no-uptime:~$ grep uptime /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
# Some messages may only be pertinent before or after some amount of uptime
read up idle < /proc/uptime
uptime="uptime/$up/$idle"
USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime cloud_id/$cloud_id"
After updating, it's gone:
ubuntu@bionic-motd-news-no-uptime:~$ apt-cache policy base-files
base-files:
Installed: 10.1ubuntu2.10
Candidate: 10.1ubuntu2.10
Version table:
*** 10.1ubuntu2.10 500
500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/main amd64
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
10.1ubuntu2.9 500
ubuntu@bionic-motd-news-no-uptime:~$ grep uptime /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
ubuntu@bionic-motd-news-no-uptime:~$
Bionic verification succeeded.
** Tags removed: verification-needed-bionic
** Tags added: verification-done-bionic
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886572
Title:
Remove uptime from the motd-news user agent
Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in base-files source package in Xenial:
Fix Committed
Status in base-files source package in Bionic:
Fix Committed
Status in base-files source package in Focal:
Fix Committed
Bug description:
[Impact]
The uptime value in the user-agent string sent to the motd-news server is
unused and not necessary. It should be removed.
[Test Case]
Inspect the /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news script and verify that uptime is
no longer used.
Previous version:
$ grep uptime /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
# Some messages may only be pertinent before or after some amount of uptime
read up idle < /proc/uptime
uptime="uptime/$up/$idle"
USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime cloud_id/$cloud_id"
Updated version:
$ grep uptime /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
(no output)
[Regression Potential]
The server side, if it were checking this value, could be surprised by this
change.
[Other Info]
N/A
[Original Description]
I don't why that was included but it shouldn't be. Please remove it.
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