which suggests the following work-around. Could you back up the below mentioned files and then try this solution?
This problem was caused by two cron jobs both trying to modify /etc/motd at the same time (every 10 minutes)! The update-motd cron job moves /var/run/motd.new out from underneath the mythtv-status job. You can see the two jobs in /etc/cron.d:
# grep 10 /etc/cron.d/mythtv-status /etc/cron.d/update-motd
I believe what should really be happening is myth-status should be run by update-motd every 10 minutes instead of independently. Here is what I did to make that happen:
Googling your error message results in the following hit: v2kblog. blogspot. com/2009/ 05/upgrading- mythbuntu- from-810- to-904. html
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which suggests the following work-around. Could you back up the below mentioned files and then try this solution?
This problem was caused by two cron jobs both trying to modify /etc/motd at the same time (every 10 minutes)! The update-motd cron job moves /var/run/motd.new out from underneath the mythtv-status job. You can see the two jobs in /etc/cron.d: d/mythtv- status /etc/cron. d/update- motd
# grep 10 /etc/cron.
/etc/cron. d/mythtv- status: */10 * * * * root [ -x /etc/init. d/mythtv- status ] && /etc/init. d/mythtv- status reload > /dev/null d/update- motd:*/ 10 * * * * root [ -x /usr/sbin/ update- motd ] && /usr/sbin/ update- motd 2>/dev/null
/etc/cron.
I believe what should really be happening is myth-status should be run by update-motd every 10 minutes instead of independently. Here is what I did to make that happen:
# rm /etc/cron. d/mythtv- status mythtv- status 50-mythtv-status
# cd /etc/update-motd.d/
# ln -s /usr/bin/