On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Alberto Fuentes
<alberto.fuen...@qindel.com> wrote:
> suddenly all of my servers stopped showing /etc/motd.tail i noticed in some
> of the it got renamed to motd.tail.old... after a few minutes, it started
> working again.
>
> I googled a little bit the issue without luck...
>
> Does anybody know what happened?
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Alberto Fuentes
<alberto.fuen...@qindel.com> wrote:
> suddenly all of my servers stopped showing /etc/motd.tail i noticed in some
> of the it got renamed to motd.tail.old... after a few minutes, it started
> working again.
>
> I googled a little bit the issue without luck...
>
> Does anybody know what happened?
It's possible that you upgraded your base-files package from a version
older than 5.0.0ubuntu13. In its postinst script, it does:
...
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ "$2" != "" ]; then
if [ -f /etc/motd.tail ]; then
if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 5.0.0ubuntu13; then
# motd.tail is no longer generated by this package;
# rather, the sysadmin can use motd.tail to append
# text to the pam_motd dynamically generated motd
mv -f /etc/motd.tail /etc/motd.tail.old
# Clear out old MOTD, will be regenerated on next login
rm -f /var/run/motd
fi
fi
...
fi
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:-Dustin
Dustin Kirkland
Ubuntu Core Developer
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