** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ The uptime value in the user-agent string sent to the motd-news server is
unused and not necessary. It should be removed.
+
+ [Test Case]
+ Inspect the /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news script and verify that uptime is
no longer used.
+
+ Previous version:
+ $ grep uptime /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
+ # Some messages may only be pertinent before or after some amount of uptime
+ read up idle < /proc/uptime
+ uptime="uptime/$up/$idle"
+ USER_AGENT="curl/$curl_ver $lsb $platform $cpu $uptime cloud_id/$cloud_id"
+
+ Updated version:
+ $ grep uptime /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
+ (no output)
+
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+ The server side, if it were checking this value, could be surprised by this
change.
+
+ [Other Info]
+ N/A
+
+ [Original Description]
I don't why that was included but it shouldn't be. Please remove it.
** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Xenial)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Focal)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)
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Remove uptime from the motd-news user agent
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