On 12/06/14 15:02, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 06/12/2014 02:30 PM, Greg Bailey wrote: >> Are you referring to something like "update-motd"? That appears to be >> installed on my Amazon EC2 instances; when I log in, I get a message like: >> >> 1 package(s) needed for security, out of 3 available >> Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates. >> >> The RPM "update-motd" (in Amazon's repo) claims the license is ASL 2.0. >> >> I found an old article at: >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-periodically-update-your-motd-update-motd >> > something like that would / could work - are the sources handy ? > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/update-motd_2.0.orig.tar.gz Seems to be the last one from before they butchered pam_motd, tarball contains several things, one update-motd written in python and the original update-motd-orig.sh T