Ubuntu
base-files package

  1. Bug #1803601
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1803601

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Simon Déziel (sdeziel) wrote : Re: [Bug 1803601] Re: motd-news.service scheduled even when /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news is not executable

On 2020-05-06 2:49 p.m., Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> There are many alternatives here.

IIRC, `chmod -x` snippets from /etc/update-motd.d/ was the way to go a
few releases ago when it was consumed by run-parts.

> I think fixing this doesn't warrant an SRU, but should be considered for
> the devel release of ubuntu (groovy at the moment).

It's merely to avoid harmless surprise and keep the old sysadmins happy,
certainly not worth a SRU.

Thanks,
Simon