[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#677898: initscripts: motd fails to be generated after upgrade to Wheezy

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:08:27PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Since upgrading to Wheezy, this host no longer produces /var/run/motd upon
> bootup, as a result of which only 'lastlog' output is displayed upon login.
> /etc/motd.tail has the stock content provided by pkg:base-files. Manually
> executing /etc/init.d/bootlogs as root succeeds, which suggests that the
> problem is somewhere else. Likewise, the script is linked via /etc/rc2.d/, so
> this is not it either. Help to find the cause of this issue is welcome.

It shouldn't be like that in wheezy (yet).  But there was a bug in
base-files.  In unstable, initscripts replaces /etc/init.d/bootlogs
with /etc/init.d/motd.  Note also the changes to /etc/pam.d/(ssh|login).


Regards,
Roger

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