Hello, upgrading from lucid to maverik (server edition), for some reason, the package update-notifier-common was removed. As main effect I have pam_motd to not refresh the /var/run/motd file.
Looking into the code (mainly the Steve's patch revision) I found the problem. As Steve said: "I've also tweaked the first patch slightly, to avoid clobbering /var/run/motd if [...] the run-parts call fails;" This is useful, but in my case, I have had a "dirty" update-motd.d directory, with some scripts exiting with error (ie: "run-parts: /etc/update-motd.d/20-cpu-checker exited with return code 2"). The system() call returns the error and the file /var/run/motd.new was never renamed into /var/run/motd. Consider that even if some scripts of the update-mod.d chain fail, the file /var/run/motd.new is created and written to disk with the only output of the working scripts. I have attached a patch that should solve this problem (at least I think it is a problem :) ). The rename() call is not blocked by the system() call and moreover if run-parts exits with error (system()!=0) pam_syslog is used to log it and help sysadmins to find rapidly the problem. If run-parts fails totally and /var/run/motd.new is not created, the rename() call returns the error (but we are not interested in it). I hope to be useful. Yusef ** Patch added: "pam_motd.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/399071/+attachment/1688175/+files/pam_motd.patch -- pam_motd: assume update-motd responsibilities https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
