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Dear Maintainer,
The handling of /etc/motd in wheezy has changed appreciably compared to
squeeze. It would be great if motd(5) and motd.tail(5) could be updated
accordingly for wheezy.
The relevant changelog entry is:
sysvinit (2.88dsf-24) experimental; urgency=low
[ Roger Leigh ]
* initscripts:
- Don't generate or touch /etc/motd. Instead, the dynamic part of
/etc/motd is created as /run/motd.dynamic, leaving /etc/motd
entirely under the control of the system administrator. If
/etc/motd is a symlink to /run/motd, /etc/motd.tail is moved
back to /etc/motd. Closes: #353229, #624391, #668307. /etc/motd
is not removed if initscripts is purged, since it's not owned by
initscripts.
- By default, /run/motd is just the output of uname, preserving the
existing behaviour. However, should the administrator wish to
include dynamic information in the motd, they may write scripts
to update /run/motd.dynamic as they please. Closes: #437176.
- motd generation is split from bootlogs into a separate motd
init script.
Looking at /etc/init.d/motd, I think references to /run/motd above should
actually be /run/motd.dynamic. motd.tail(5) can just be deleted.
cheers
Stuart
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