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[Casey Stone <tcstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello: This affects my server(s), 14.04.2 LTS. In fact I just logged in
and got information that was 11 days old. I rely on the welcome message
especially to tell me when I need to REBOOT for some automatically-
installed (perhaps security) updates to be fully applied. Perhaps a
wiser sysadmin would have a better way to be notified about that!

Anyway, could this bug perhaps be assigned to someone and solved soon
please?

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Title:
  old motd is displayed on login

Status in shadow package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  On Trusty, during login, the motd displayed is from the cache file
  /run/motd.dynamic. After being displayed, the scripts from /etc
  /update-motd.d are run to refresh /run/motd.dynamic. This behavior of
  displaying the cache first is not very convenient and didn't happen on
  Precise. This is also does not match the documentation (man 5 update-
  motd) nor the users' expectations.

  Steps to reproduce:

  $ cat << "EOF" | sudo tee /etc/update-motd.d/60-test
  #!/bin/sh
  printf "motd from: $(date +%T)\n"
  EOF
  $ sudo chmod +x /etc/update-motd.d/60-test

  
  $ echo 'echo "real time: $(date +%T)";exit' | ssh -T localhost
  Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64)

   * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
  motd from: 6:05:43
  real time: 12:36:14

  The above is just an example of how old/stale the output can be.

  More details:

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
  Release:	14.04
  $ apt-cache policy libpam-modules
  libpam-modules:
    Installed: 1.1.8-1ubuntu2
    Candidate: 1.1.8-1ubuntu2
    Version table:
   *** 1.1.8-1ubuntu2 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: libpam-modules 1.1.8-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Sep 12 12:22:09 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-26 (228 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140124)
  SourcePackage: pam
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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