Comment 6 for bug 2022825

> The documentation tells users how to disable the service without having to know systemd service interfaces.

Which is:

> /etc/default/motd-news has an ENABLED=1 setting that if set to 0 will turn off this functionality.

And this is not working, as reported by Nadav.
My modt keep getting errors when i run commend "systemctl status" too. Mine is:

$ sudo systemctl status motd-news.service
à motd-news.service - Message of the Day
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.service; static)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2023-09-24 12:40:01 EDT; 6h ago
TriggeredBy: â motd-news.timer
       Docs: man:update-motd(8)
    Process: 375394 ExecStart=/etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news --force (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   Main PID: 375394 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
        CPU: 9ms

Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: Starting Message of the Day...
Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[375394]: motd-news.service: Failed to locate executable /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permission>
Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[375394]: motd-news.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permissio>
Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 24 12:40:01 lplat systemd[1]: Failed to start Message of the Day.

$ sudo journalctl -u motd-news.service
Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: Starting Message of the Day...
Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 17 16:57:01 . systemd[1]: Failed to start Message of the Day.
Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[52283]: motd-news.service: Failed to locate executable /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permission denied
Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: Starting Message of the Day...
Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[52283]: motd-news.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news: Permission denied
Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: motd-news.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 18 01:35:30 . systemd[1]: Failed to start Message of the Day.
. . .

$ ls -l /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5023 2021-10-15 06:06 /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news

How did you disable the timer, Nadav?