Hey, Thanks Ian. Funnily enough, back when I first wrote mythtv-status I had it generated the motd file on the fly in /etc/update-motd.d, but that slowed logging in far too much. I'm still wary about doing that as we're putting in a dependency on the performance of a potentially remote machine, which might be off.
I think I'll go down the path of generating /var/run/mythtv-status.motd (or similar) and then having a snippet cat that file. Cheers, Andrew On Fri, 2018-06-29 at 16:27 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Package: mythtv-status > Version: 0.10.8-1 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > I just installed this package and the motd updating functionality is > not > working. I can see that it is correctly populating > /var/run/motd.dynamic but > that is not being incorporated into the actual motd (wherever that > is/however > that happens). > > In a mail to mythtv-user[0] another user noticed that apparently it > is now > necessary (on Ubuntu) to create a snippet in /etc/update-motd.d. I've > not tried > this on my Debian system yet, but I note that the directory does > exist. > > The patch there is ok as a local workaround, I think, but maybe not > appropriate > for the package, I'd guess either creating /var/run/mythtv- > status.motd and > having a snippet produce that or just having a snippet produce the > desired > content on the fly would be better. > > Thanks, > Ian. > > [0] http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2018-June/396660.h > tml > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: buster/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Foreign Architectures: amd64 > > Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) > LSM: AppArmor: enabled > > Versions of packages mythtv-status depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.66 > ii libconfig-auto-perl 0.44-1 > ii libdate-manip-perl 6.71-1 > ii libmime-tools-perl 5.509-1 > ii libsys-sigaction-perl 0.23-1 > ii libwww-perl 6.33-1 > ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0128+dfsg-5 > ii lsb-base 9.20170808 > ii perl 5.26.2-5 > > Versions of packages mythtv-status recommends: > ii libmythtv-perl 29.1+fixes20180603.git1777cc4425-dmo1 > ii libnet-upnp-perl 1.4.3-1 > > Versions of packages mythtv-status suggests: > pn molly-guard <none> > > -- debconf information: > * mythtv-status/email: none > * mythtv-status/host: localhost > * mythtv-status/enable: true > -- Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand and...@etc.gen.nz | linux.conf.au 2019, Christchurch, NZ Catalyst Cloud: | https://lca2019.linux.org.au/ https://catalystcloud.nz |
