What possible benefit was there from overcomplicating the bloody MOTD file? I dunno, but does it really matter? If the motd mattered anything to me, I would h

What possible benefit was there from overcomplicating the bloody MOTD file? I dunno, but does it really matter? If the motd mattered anything to me, I would have been aware of the change. I was blindsided by this change too and one day, like years ago, I noticed that the motd wasn't working as I expected and reset itself. I did (something to the effect of) this: $ ls -l /etc/motd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2008-09-23 21:44 /etc/motd -> /var/run/motd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2009-06-14 15:01 /etc/motd.tail Then I thought "oh I see what they did there", dropped a banner in motd.tail and moved on with life. Wow, yeah, 2 and a half years ago. Didn't care then, still don't care now.