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Any further detail I can add here to move this along? Trying to work out
the most elegant workaround in the mean time whilst the pam module is
still apparently not functioning as intended.

According to the man page for the current pam_motd (included in libpam-modules Version: 1.1.8-1ubuntu2
 ), it's still reading from /etc/motd 

** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => Confirmed

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Title:
  Symlink /etc/motd gets removed on installation or upgrade from Precise

Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hi everyone,

  The postinst maintainer script of the initscripts package contains this code:
  if dpkg --compare-versions "$PREV_VER" lt "2.88dsf-24" ; then
     if [ -L /etc/motd ] && [ "$(readlink /etc/motd)" = "/var/run/motd"  ]; then
         rm /etc/motd
  ...

  
  This code is problematic as it removes /etc/motd for new installs and during an upgrade from Precise.
  New installs:
  $ dpkg --compare-versions "" lt "2.88dsf-24" && echo true || echo false
  true

  Upgrade from Precise:
  $ dpkg --compare-versions "2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11.1" lt "2.88dsf-24" && echo true || echo false
  true

  
  To me it looks like this issue is present since Saucy and got introduced with version 2.88dsf-41ubuntu1.

  Best,

  Michael Schaller

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