[Bug 805423] Re: pam_motd needs a module option to disable in-line dynamic updates

[Till Klampaeckel]

I have no such thing – my users are 'local'.

It's a stock 10.04.4, this is how it looks like right now:

    till at statsd1:~$ ls -lah /etc/update-motd.d/
    total 48K
    drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4.0K 2012-07-12 15:19 .
    drwxr-xr-x 89 root root 4.0K 2012-07-13 10:25 ..
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   57 2010-04-23 09:45 00-header
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  248 2010-04-23 09:45 10-help-text
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   65 2010-04-13 20:45 20-cpu-checker
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  627 2011-09-30 07:16 51_update-motd
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   71 2010-04-13 20:45 90-updates-available
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   61 2010-10-13 07:40 91-release-upgrade
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1.3K 2010-12-03 15:50 92-uec-upgrade-available
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  306 2011-09-30 07:16 98-cloudguest
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   69 2010-04-13 20:45 98-reboot-required
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  261 2010-04-23 09:45 99-footer

Note: I removed landscape-client (which in turn removes the offending
script from that directory) and the issues are gone.

@Andreas: Did you check out my askubuntu link
(http://askubuntu.com/a/162373/11244)? It has process list and all that.
It def. stalls at the sysinfo script and it seems like the call to "who"
broke.

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Title:
  pam_motd needs a module option to disable in-line dynamic updates

Status in Landscape Client:
  New
Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  2)  Installiert: 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.3
    Kandidat: 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.3
    Versions-Tabelle:
   *** 1.1.1-2ubuntu5.3 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       1.1.1-2ubuntu2 0
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

  3) Login on systems with high load/a lot of io wait via ssh should
  still be possible.

  4) On servers with high load or a lot of io wait login times out,
  because pam_motd does io intensive calculations. This hurts even more
  when using nagios check_by_ssh. There should be a way to use a cron
  job again (like update-motd did). Logging into a system is more
  important than motd.

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