Comment 34 for bug 659738

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Nathan Stratton Treadway (nathanst) wrote : Re: [Bug 659738] Re: Duplicate welcome message in motd (caused by postinst script creating motd.tail file)

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:27:14 -0000, Michael Lueck wrote:
> How's progress getting this fixed in stable distribution? I just had to
> "sudo rm /etc/motd.tail" on Lucid servers again. So I guess doing so is
> not a one time manual fix. :-(

The patch that Barry uploaded probably makes this info
obsolete, but just in case something delays that
package from being released (or whatever), I'll
mention that the troublesome section of the
sysvinit.postinst script only runs if motd.tail does
not exist.

So, you can get a "one time manual fix" by emptying
out the motd.tail file but leaving that empty file
there (rather than deleting it completely).

     Nathan