Where does the "n packages can be upgraded" message come from

[stan]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 02:02:30PM +0000, sktsee wrote:
> On Mon, 16 May 2011 16:07:33 -0400, stan wrote:
> 
> > Lately I have been having issues with machines telling me that thier ar
> > available upgrades when I log in, that do not appear, after an apt-get
> > upgrade request. I thought I would look to see if soemthing wasn't
> > updating this properly, so I went and looked in /etc/profile, thinking
> > that was the logical place for that to be checked, but thier does not
> > seem to be a check for that there.
> > 
> > Where can I find this?
> 
> I believe you are referring to the motd (message of the day) that's 
> presented when logging into vt, or ssh session? I think there was a bug 
> recently, perhaps with the post-install script for the package libpam-
> modules (which contains pam_motd), that caused the "update available" 
> messages to be written to /etc/motd.tail which is meant for admnistrator 
> supplied static information. Anyway, check to see if you have that file 
> and either delete it, or edit it remove the update messages.
> 

Thanks. I did have /etc/motd.tail, and I removed it. Now I don't get the
incorect information, but I also do not get the corect information. 

Will the correct information be generated at some point in time?

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