I booted multiple virtual machines to see if I could discover a difference among releases and observed the following:
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:~$ systemctl status motd-news.timer ● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (waiting) since Wed 2019-06-12 15:40:07 PDT; 9min ago Trigger: Thu 2019-06-13 04:29:53 PDT; 12h left Jun 12 15:40:07 clean-cosmic-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day. bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl status motd-news.timer ● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (elapsed) since Wed 2019-06-12 15:41:33 PDT; 8min ago Trigger: n/a Jun 12 15:41:33 clean-bionic-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day. bdmurray@clean-disco-amd64:~$ systemctl status motd-news.timer ● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (elapsed) since Wed 2019-06-12 15:42:11 PDT; 7min ago Trigger: n/a Jun 12 15:42:11 clean-disco-amd64 systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day. My Disco desktop: [ 3:37PM 11006 ] [ bdmurray@impulse:~/source-trees/daisy/trunk ] $ systemctl status motd-news.timer ● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (waiting) since Mon 2019-06-03 16:01:27 PDT; 1 weeks 1 days ago Trigger: Wed 2019-06-12 22:26:26 PDT; 6h left Jun 03 16:01:27 impulse systemd[1]: Started Message of the Day. My Bionic server: [ 3:43PM 5419 ] [ bdmurray@bizarro:/tmp ] $ systemctl status motd-news.timer ● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (elapsed) since Mon 2019-05-06 09:17:35 PDT; 1 months 6 days ago Trigger: n/a Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incomplete or unavailable. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to which systems received the Trigger. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1829968 Title: motd [on at least some instances] does not auto-update daily To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1829968/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
