[CentOS-devel] pending updates notification on login

[Elias Persson]

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).