update-motd not updating /etc/motd after LTS upgrade

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 07:18:06PM +0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a few scripts within /etc/update-motd.d/, e.g.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> unset PATH
> /usr/bin/printf "%s\n%s\n\n" "Uptime/Load:" "$(/usr/bin/uptime)"
> 
> While on 10.04 and on a fresh installation of 12.04 this script works
> fine, on two upgraded machines from 10.04 to 12.04 /etc/motd is not
> updated. If I remove /etc/motd (/var/run/motd) it is not even
> re-created at all.
> 
> What can I futher check?

Your PAM configuration?

       Executable scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/* are executed by
       pam_motd(8) as the root user at each login, and this information
       is concatenated in /var/run/motd.  The order of script
       execution is determined by the run-parts(8) --lsbsysinit option
       (basically  alphabetical order, with a few caveats).

    -- http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man5/update-motd.5.html

Marius Gedminas
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