I've reproduced the problem here. In /etc/update-motd.d/99-footer, we have: #!/bin/sh # motd.tail is reserved for the admin to append static # trailing information to a dynamically generated # /etc/motd. # # To add dynamic information, add a numbered # script to /etc/update-motd.d/ [ -f /etc/motd.tail ] && cat /etc/motd.tail || true
Which is fine and dandy... motd.tail is reserved for the local sysadmin to append pertinent data. But cat /etc/motd.tail says: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Sat Apr 30 10:00:01 CDT 2011 System load: 0.5 Processes: 172 Usage of /: 68.5% of 458.45GB Users logged in: 1 Memory usage: 23% IP address for br0: 192.168.1.133 Swap usage: 0% IP address for virbr0: 192.168.122.1 Temperature: 40 C Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/ 61 packages can be updated. 32 updates are security updates. Note the date... April 30th. (I just catted that today, June 17th). Some package that got updated between April 20th and April 30th looks to have statically written into /etc/motd.tail. I'm investigating now.... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/766827 Title: motd not updating To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-motd/+bug/766827/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
