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

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:36 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:55:22AM +0000, Jonesy wrote:
>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2012 16:28:10 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> >
>> > To the OP:
>> >
>> > Check that "/run/motd" exists and check its contents.
>>
>> ITYM "/var/run/motd" ?
>
> /var/run is a symlink to /run (which is a tmpfs mount) in 12.04.
>
>> > Check that "/etc/motd" is a symlink to "/run/motd".
>
> On my system it's a system to /var/run/motd, which is also fine.

On a clean install of 12.04, "/var/run" is a symlink to "/run".