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my motd shouldn't tell canonical every time i log in... looks like it never hits the cache unless the curl fails.

• justinsaccount 7y ago
  it doesn't. Right above that code is this block # If we're not forcing an update, and we have a cached motd-news file, # then just print it and exit as quickly as possible, for login performance. # Note that systemd should keep this cache file up to date, asynchronously if [ "$FORCED" != "1" ]; then if [ -r $CACHE ]; then echo safe_print $CACHE else : > $CACHE fi exit 0 fi None of that code in the tweet actually runs at login.
  • jlgaddis 7y ago
    > None of that code in the tweet actually runs at login. Except when there was a bug that caused it to do just that (and also caused a five second delay when logging in).
    • justinsaccount 7y ago
      ... 2 and a half years ago. Can you provide links to all software you have ever written so I can complain about bugs that existed in 2017?
      • jlgaddis 7y ago
        I suppose I can, if you really want me to, but: 1.) no software I've ever written is installed and enabled, by default, on pretty much every Ubuntu instance created in the last ~2.5 years (whether the "owners" of those instances want it or not), 2.) I certainly never claimed to write 100% bug-free code (in fact, I will freely admit that I absolutely DO NOT write bug-free code!), and 3.) this discussion really isn't about me or any code that I have written. (If you're the one that wrote whatever caused the bug and my comment caused your feelings to get hurt, sorry, but software bugs are a fact of life.)