Hi Emanuele

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 12:55:15AM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> Hello Ola,
> 
> * Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2007-04-08 23:22 +0200]:
> >  On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:04:08PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> >  > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /etc/motd
> >  > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-02-19 21:46 /etc/motd -> /var/run/motd
> >  > 
> >  > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/lib/vservers/ns/etc/motd
> >  > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2007-04-06 13:18 /var/lib/vservers/ns/etc/motd 
> > -> /var/run/motd
> >  > 
> >  > They both point to the same file. Maybe the right thing to do is
> >  > creating a new motd for the guests, rather than pointing to
> >  > /var/run/motd?
> >  
> >  Emm yes. This is obviously a standard behaviour that must have changed 
> > since
> >  woody or something.
> >  
> >  But this must mean that this file will be regenerated at reboot, right?
> 
> Yes, by /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh:
> 
>     # Update motd
>     uname -snrvm > /var/run/motd
>     [ -f /etc/motd.tail ] && cat /etc/motd.tail >> /var/run/motd
> 
> However, I do not believe that this makes the bug less important,
> especially on machines that are not rebooted often like servers.

I no not fully agree, but almost. It is less important, but still
quite important.

Regards,

// Ola

> ciao,
>     ema
> 

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