[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#668307: initscripts: recreates /etc/motd

[Tollef Fog Heen]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-22.1
Severity: serious
Justification: policy 10.7.3, does not preserve local changes

: tfheen at qurzaw ~ > sudo rm -f /etc/motd
: tfheen at qurzaw ~ > sudo dpkg-reconfigure initscripts
: tfheen at qurzaw ~ > ls -l /etc/motd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  13 april 10 22:41 /etc/motd -> /var/run/motd

It shouldn't recreate that file if the admin has removed it.

(It should also point at /run rather than /var/run, but that's a more
minor matter.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3.1
ii  debianutils     4.3
ii  libc6           2.13-27
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian0
ii  mount           2.20.1-4
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-22.1
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-22.1
ii  ucf             3.0025+nmu2

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.2-1
ii  psmisc     22.16-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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