*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 399071 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399071
I think you are being rather harsh.
update-motd solved an interesting problem... Actually making the MOTD
dynamic enough to really become a "message of the day". Or "message
of the hour". Or "message of the last 10 minutes". /etc/motd in UNIX
has been around for almost 40 years, and no OS that I know of has
instituted a framework at the distribution level for allowing an
administrator to dynamically build the MOTD.
The original implementation was hacked out just in time for Feature
Freeze for Intrepid. There were no corners cut. It went through the
normal process for inclusion. The development runway was short, and
the 10-minute cronjob was the easiest to implement in the given
timeframe.
Trust me, I was *never* happy with the cronjob design, and have been
looking for a better solution, albeit in my spare time, as I'm not
tasked to work on update-motd.
Over the weekend, I rewrote update-motd from scratch, replacing the
cronjobs with a single daemon. In my testing, the daemon was
extremely fast, and efficient, and had nearly zero impact to a running
system. That said, some people did raise the issue (in a far more
constructive manner than yourself) that they didn't see the point of
the daemon. That this data should be collected at login.
I spent another day re-writing it yet again to use /etc/profile.d.
Which, again, was not acceptable to another party.
And so I just completed a fourth rewrite, integrating it into
pam_motd. This is the first implementation that I've actually been
happy with. And it took some time, and a number of constructive
conversations to get there.
Soon enough, you'll get your wish, and the update-motd package will be
eliminated as its functionality is subsumed directly into PAM.
Next time, though, you should try a less harsh approach. Come with a
proposed solution, or code in hand. Your request will be met with
much more consideration.
Dustin
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please remove update-motd from default install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398969
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