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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: pam_motd performance problems | #3 |
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> We would like to have an option to run the cronjobs again.
Well, you could install a cronjob by hand, which is what you would need to do anyway (we're not going to ship a disabled cron job in the package). The harder part is making pam_motd not call run-parts itself in-line. You could achieve that by moving /etc/update-motd.d to a different location where pam_motd won't look for it but then you run the risk that any new package installs that add a new update-motd.d hook will reintroduce the problem (and, furthermore, clobber the work of your cronjob).
So I can see a case here after all for a 'noupdate' module option that disables the dynamic updating.
BTW, does check_by_ssh open a tty? I believe there's another outstanding bug about fixing pam_motd to do the update when the motd won't actually be displayed.