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carbolymer

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Registered: 2012-04-25

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Dynamic MOTD update on login

I've found in Ubuntu manual: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bio … otd.5.html that files in

/etc/update-motd.d/

are executed by pam_motd on login. I assume that the same pam_motd is used in Arch, but in my case the files in the update-motd.d are not executed. Any ideas why? How to execute shell scripts to generate MOTD on each login?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Dynamic MOTD update on login

I assume that the same pam_motd is used in Arch, but in my case the files in the update-motd.d are not executed.

see man 8 pam_motd

carbolymer

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Registered: 2012-04-25

Posts: 42

Re: Dynamic MOTD update on login

I've seen it. It basically says that pam_motd is only capable of displaying files - not executing scripts. So, is ubuntu using different pam_motd, or what is happening here?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Dynamic MOTD update on login

ubuntu uses https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-motd

carbolymer

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Registered: 2012-04-25

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Re: Dynamic MOTD update on login

Turns out ubuntu uses patched motd: https://wiki.debian.org/motd#How_to_scr … etc.2Fmotd and upstream PAM does not contain the patch with the dynamic motd. I will stick to the motd updated by cron job.