Ubuntu – How to disable the Message of the Day (MOTD) on Ubuntu 14.04

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I tried disabling the motd.dynamic in /var/run renaming the file, but did not work because the system recreates the file.

Does anyone know disable it?

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Most answers need root access.

Any user can get a clean login(include disabling the MOTD), simply run:

touch $HOME/.hushlogin

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Take a look at the Ubuntu Wiki article about the design of the update-motd application. This program is contained in the update-motd package and will help you to create a more dynamic MOTD.

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It looks like the /etc/update-motd.d directory can no longer have links to the scripts. (This happened to the Cronjob directories a number of release back, and is part of the security stuff I would guess).

If you list the directory (ls -l /etc/update-motd.d) you will see the following

50-landscape-sysinfo -> /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper

If you want the System information back just copy the script into /etc/update-motd.d with the following command.

$ sudo cp /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper /etc/update-motd.d/52-landscape-sysinfo

Note that when landscape fixes the problem you will get two copy of the script and then you can just delete the file.

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