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Some deployments call for displaying a specific exact text at login which require setting update_motd="NO" and keeping an immutable motd file. In such cases, /var/run/motd will not be generated and if /var/run is a tmpfs, writing an immutable file there will not survive a reboot. When update_motd="YES", /etc/motd is created as a symbolic link so login(1) can retain its historic behavior of reading /etc/motd, either as a regular immutable file or as a symbolic link to /var/run/motd.

When /var/run is a tmpfs and update_motd="NO", /var/run/motd will not be created and if manually created, will not persist after reboot. Change motd rc script to always run. Use update_motd variable to decide if version info should be prepended or not.

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