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

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de> wrote:
> 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. ;)
>>
>> for motd to be displayed at boot?
>
> Hm, only at boot?! No. Or?! Because I meanwhile found out that
> /var/run/motd *is* created after a reboot but *is not* after a
> (remote-)login (via ssh):
>
> helmut at mail:~$ ls -la /var/run/motd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1736 Jun  8 00:32 /var/run/motd
> helmut at mail:~$ last -6R
> helmut   pts/0        Fri Jun  8 00:41   still logged in
> root     pts/0        Fri Jun  8 00:41 - 00:41  (00:00)
> root     pts/0        Fri Jun  8 00:40 - 00:41  (00:00)
> helmut   pts/0        Fri Jun  8 00:39 - 00:40  (00:01)
> helmut   pts/0        Fri Jun  8 00:34 - 00:37  (00:03)
> reboot   system boot  Fri Jun  8 00:32 - 00:43  (00:10)
>
> wtmp begins Tue Jan  3 13:29:48 2012
> helmut at mail:~$
>
> At least on 10.04 /var/run/motd is created upon each logon.

Sorry. "/var/run/motd" is created at boot and motd's displayed at every login.

If you have a symlink from "/etc/motd" to "/var/run/motd" and, as
someone else pointed out, if you have a pam_motd line for login and
sshd, you should have your script displayed as the motd.