Hi,
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:25:20PM +0100, Laurent Sauvage wrote:
> Package: debian-reference
> Version: 2
>
> Section 1.1.1 suggests use of "/etc/motd.tail" file which is out of date.
Yah, I have not been bothered to use motd for last few years.
sysvinit (2.88dsf-24) experimental; urgency=low
[ Roger Leigh ]
* initscripts:
- Don't generate or touch /etc/motd. Instead, the dynamic part of
/etc/motd is created as /run/motd.dynamic, leaving /etc/motd
entirely under the control of the system administrator. If
/etc/motd is a symlink to /run/motd, /etc/motd.tail is moved
back to /etc/motd. Closes: #353229, #624391, #668307. /etc/motd
is not removed if initscripts is purged, since it's not owned by
initscripts.
- By default, /run/motd is just the output of uname, preserving the
existing behaviour. However, should the administrator wish to
include dynamic information in the motd, they may write scripts
to update /run/motd.dynamic as they please. Closes: #437176.
- motd generation is split from bootlogs into a separate motd
init script.
...
-- Roger Leigh <rle...@debian.org> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:52:14 +0100
