/etc/init.d/motd is in initscripts 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o755.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 | #!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: motd
# Required-Start: hostname $local_fs
# Required-Stop:
# Should-Start:
# Default-Start: 1 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Create dynamic part of /etc/motd
# Description: /etc/motd is user-editable and static. This script
# creates the initial dynamic part, by default the
# output of uname, and stores it in /var/run/motd.dynamic.
# Both parts are output by pam_motd.
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
. /lib/init/vars.sh
do_start () {
# Update motd
uname -snrvm > /var/run/motd.dynamic
}
do_status () {
if [ -f /var/run/motd.dynamic ] ; then
return 0
else
return 4
fi
}
case "$1" in
start|"")
do_start
;;
restart|reload|force-reload)
echo "Error: argument '$1' not supported" >&2
exit 3
;;
stop)
# No-op
;;
status)
do_status
exit $?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: motd [start|stop|status]" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
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