@xnox: Totally agreed on https. I just uploaded that fix to zesty, defaulting to https://motd.ubuntu.com (which exists now, it didn't at the time), and enforcing that all URLs should start with https://.
The .timer systemd unit + caching + periodic refresh is interesting, indeed. I'll look into a rewrite of update-motd to do it this way. What minimum version of systemd would I need for it to work this way? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to base-files in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637800 Title: add a motd script for news Status in base-files package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in base-files source package in Xenial: In Progress Bug description: Add a new update-motd script for printing news and/or important notices. == SRU == [IMPACT] We should add important security messages or other news to the MOTD. [TEST CASE] Login to the system and ensure that the "news" section of the motd is displayed. Note that you might need to force trigger an update by running 'sudo update-motd'. [REGRESSION POTENTIAL] No reasonable regression potential. The script simply prints 2 lines of text to the MOTD. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1637800/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
