Ubuntu
base-files package

  1. Bug #550561
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 550561

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Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote : Re: /etc/motd contains duplicate welcome/documentation blurbs on lucid

It's persistent across reboots. And this is on a system installed from the Beta1 netboot/alternate installer, not a dist-upgrade.

What is generating /etc/motd.tail? For that matter, what's the proper way to (re)generate /etc/motd? /etc/init/mounted-varrun.conf seems to do this itself, without bothering with /etc/update-motd.d/*. (Shouldn't there be an update-motd(8) script or something? I can't find what's supposed to do the run-parts call.)

This is looking like a "too many cooks" problem....