On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 05:04:40PM +0100, Steve Langasek wrote: > reassign 580286 update-notifier-common > thanks > > On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:23:16AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > > This one was a bit hard to track down. After a while, my /etc/motd > > would be reduced to one empty line or info about packages updates. > > > It happens that pam_motd executes /etc/update-motd.d if it exists (with > > run-parts) but nothing in this directory rebuilds the standard motd. I did not know this.
> > > This could be a bug in update-notifier-common, or in pam (not providing > > a small file such as: > > ebene:~$ cat /etc/update-motd.d/00-header > > #!/bin/sh > > uname -snrvm > > [ -f /etc/motd.tail ] && cat /etc/motd.tail > > Yes, I think this is a bug in update-notifier-common for shipping this file > in Debian without having an appropriate versioned dep on something that > builds the main part of the motd. Reassigning. Is there something that builds it? -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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