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

[Ric Moore]

On 06/07/2012 06:13 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Helmut Schneider<jumper99 at gmx.de>  wrote:
>> compdoc wrote:
>>
>>> and then find out why /var/run/motd is not being generated
>>
>> That's why I'm here. ;)
>
> Did you see that someone pointed out in an earlier post that you have
> to run "ln -s /var/run/motd /etc/motd" and that you shouldn't
> re-delete "/etc/motd" for motd to be displayed at boot?
>

Heh, there you go. Another simple old text file to give system news to 
login users made all complicated. Someone must hate us. Ric



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