motd.tail renamed itself to motd.tail.old in all of my servers at the same time

[Alberto Fuentes]

Nah, i did not upgraded anything on any server lately

also, i checked with the old sysadmin and I was told that it happens 
randomly sometimes and that he has no clue why :S

WTF

greets!
aL

On 16/02/12 16:50, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Alberto Fuentes
> <alberto.fuentes at qindel.com>  wrote:
>> suddenly all of my servers stopped showing /etc/motd.tail i noticed in some
>> of the it got renamed to motd.tail.old... after a few minutes, it started
>> working again.
>>
>> I googled a little bit the issue without luck...
>>
>> Does anybody know what happened?
>
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:19 AM, Alberto Fuentes
> <alberto.fuentes at qindel.com>  wrote:
>> suddenly all of my servers stopped showing /etc/motd.tail i noticed in some
>> of the it got renamed to motd.tail.old... after a few minutes, it started
>> working again.
>>
>> I googled a little bit the issue without luck...
>>
>> Does anybody know what happened?
>
> It's possible that you upgraded your base-files package from a version
> older than 5.0.0ubuntu13.  In its postinst script, it does:
> ...
> if [ "$1" = "configure" ]&&  [ "$2" != "" ]; then
>    if [ -f /etc/motd.tail ]; then
>      if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 5.0.0ubuntu13; then
>        # motd.tail is no longer generated by this package;
>        # rather, the sysadmin can use motd.tail to append
>        # text to the pam_motd dynamically generated motd
>        mv -f /etc/motd.tail /etc/motd.tail.old
>        # Clear out old MOTD, will be regenerated on next login
>        rm -f /var/run/motd
>      fi
>    fi
> ...
> fi
>