[Bug 1637800] Re: add a motd script for news

[Brian Murray]

I installed the version of base-files from Ubuntu 18.04's proposed
repository and after installation of the package not timer was running
for motd-news. I rebooted to see if that would active the timer and it
did not.

bdmurray at clean-xenial-amd64:~$ ls -lh /var/cache/motd-news 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 18 12:32 /var/cache/motd-news
bdmurray at clean-xenial-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers --all
NEXT                         LEFT     LAST                         PASSED      UNIT                         ACTIVATES
Thu 2019-07-18 21:33:41 PDT  8h left  Thu 2019-07-18 12:20:38 PDT  1h 8min ago apt-daily.timer              apt-daily.service
Fri 2019-07-19 06:01:14 PDT  16h left Thu 2019-07-18 12:20:38 PDT  1h 8min ago apt-daily-upgrade.timer      apt-daily-upgrade.service
Fri 2019-07-19 12:47:35 PDT  23h left Thu 2019-07-18 12:47:35 PDT  41min ago   systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
n/a                          n/a      n/a                          n/a         snapd.refresh.timer         
n/a                          n/a      n/a                          n/a         snapd.snap-repair.timer      snapd.snap-repair.service
n/a                          n/a      n/a                          n/a         ureadahead-stop.timer        ureadahead-stop.service

6 timers listed.
bdmurray at clean-xenial-amd64:~$ uptime
 13:29:32 up 57 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
bdmurray at clean-xenial-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy base-files
base-files:
  Installed: 9.4ubuntu4.10
  Candidate: 9.4ubuntu4.10
  Version table:
 *** 9.4ubuntu4.10 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     9.4ubuntu4.8 500
        500 https://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
     9.4ubuntu4 500
        500 https://ubuntu.osuosl.org/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

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Title:
  add a motd script for news

Status in base-files package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in base-files source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Add a new update-motd script for printing news and/or important
  notices.

  == SRU ==

  [IMPACT]
  We should add important security messages or other news to the MOTD.

  [TEST CASE]
  Login to the system and ensure that the "news" section of the motd is displayed.  Note that you might need to force trigger an update by running 'sudo update-motd'.

  [REGRESSION POTENTIAL]
  No reasonable regression potential.  The script simply prints 2 lines of text to the MOTD.

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