Alice want to change the motd on her server. The manpage motd(5) tells her that "the contents of this file are regenerated upon every system boot based on the contents of /etc/motd.tail" and links to motd.tail(5). That manpage tells her that " /etc/motd.tail is the file to edit permanent changes to the message of the day" and "The initiation script /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh prepends a line containing information about the system to /etc/motd.tail and stores the resulting file in /var/run/motd".
Alice can't find neither /etc/motd.tail nor etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh on her system but although the last reboot was 3 month ago she still gets up to date information about packages to be updated at login. Alice doesn't think the manpage is helpful in any way. ================================================================== Bob want to change the motd on his server. The manpage motd(5) tells him that on Ubuntu the motd is dynamically created by the update-motd framework and links to update-motd(5). In update-motd(5) he reads that "Executable scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/* are executed by pam_motd(8) as the root user at each login" which is exactly what he wanted to know. Bob thinks the manpage is really helpful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/785901 Title: motd(5) mentions motd.tail which isn't avaialble anymore To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/785901/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
