[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#437176: Please provide an 'update-motd' script instead of handling motd updates in the initscript

martin f krafft madduck at debian.org
Sun Jul 13 16:55:22 UTC 2008


also sprach Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs at computer.org> [2007.08.10.2322 +0200]:
> Motd(1) does not describe this (will issue a different bug) but IMHO we
> should have an 'update-motd' script to update motd, even if it just did the 
> following (from bootmisc.sh's script):
> 
>     # Update motd
>     uname -snrvm > /var/run/motd
>     [ -f /etc/motd.tail ] && cat /etc/motd.tail >> /var/run/motd
> 
> And the 'update-motd' script should be run by bootmisc.sh.

Any news on this?

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