apt discrepancy?

[Dave Stevens]

> > Regards,
> > 
> > Jared Norris
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
> 
> I have seen this behavior on my 10.04 machines to. I cured by "rm  -f
> /etc/motd.tail". This will force it to update next tie. 

yes, that did it. Thanks to all who answered.

Dave

> I have seen two
> different numbers for packages to be updated and security updates. It is
> confusing until you figure out what is going on.

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