[Bug 1558270] [NEW] [Ubuntu 16.04] No automatic/regular update of motd

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== Comment: #0 - Thorsten Winkler - 2016-03-16 06:59:10 ==
Logging in into Ubuntu shows the MOTD (message of the day) which again shows how many packages still could be updated.
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For example:
Welcome to Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-11-generic s390x)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

7 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.
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After "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade", then rebooting the system, this message still appears although now no package is available to update. That is sometimes confusing a little bit.

Here the config of /etc/pam.d/login: 
     session    optional   pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic
     session    optional   pam_motd.so noupdate

I tried to comment the second line but nothing happened.
And I also tried to delete "/run/motd.dynamic", hoping that this file will be created again with updated information. But it does not.

== Comment: #1 - Thorsten Diehl - 2016-03-16 09:19:57 ==
After apt-get upgrade, apt-get dist-upgrade or aptitude the status of the number of updateable packages should be recalculated.

== Comment: #3 - Maxim Shchetynin - 2016-03-16 13:11:56 ==
These messages are generated by some Python script belonging to the package update-notifier-common.
To get rid of these annoying messages just remove the package update-notifier-common, though it is designed to be used on desktop systems and is therefore not necessary on server systems like System z.

** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Skipper Bug Screeners (skipper-screen-team)
         Status: New


** Tags: architecture-s39064 bugnameltc-139140 severity-low targetmilestone-inin---
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[Ubuntu 16.04] No automatic/regular update of motd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558270
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