On 2014-06-12 22:36, Pat Riehecky wrote:
On 06/12/2014 03:25 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 06/12/2014 09:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Minor warning: if you are using backuppc to back up a host with rsync over ssh, it will fail if there is any output before the rsync startup. Native rsync will ignore it, but not the backuppc server's rsync-in-perl implementation. So, randomly adding messages at login may have side effects.
does it fail, with enough context to figure out what happened ? if so, we then just need to make it easy to turn off.
Similarly, putting the content in /etc/motd may have issues.
A few remote connection protocols offer up /etc/motd before users authenticate. Sending out to anonymous users "You've got 300 un-applied updates" might be bad.
Pat
Isn't that what /etc/issue is for? Sounds like something that should be reported as a bug and/or worked around regardless.
/etc/motd is not displayed on non-interactive ssh logins (at least not in the one case I have available to test with).