Clean up Ubuntu 18.04 MOTD Published: Sep 17, 2019 Noticed the following in my message of the day whenever I login to my Ubuntu server Current MOTD Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64) * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com * Management: https://landscape.canonical.com * Support: https://ubuntu.com/advantage System information as of Mon Sep 23 17:18:30 UTC 2019 System load: 0.0 Processes: 120 Usage of /: 37.9% of 29.02GB Users logged in: 0 Memory usage: 18% IP address for enp0s3: 10.0.2.15 Swap usage: 0% * Congrats to the Kubernetes community on 1.16 beta 1! Now available in MicroK8s for evaluation and testing, with upgrades to RC and GA snap info microk8s * Canonical Livepatch is available for installation. - Reduce system reboots and improve kernel security. Activate at: https://ubuntu.com/livepatch 0 packages can be updated. 0 updates are security updates. Last login: Mon Sep 23 16:18:32 2019 from 10.0.2.2 You can see all the scripts to create the MOTD $ ls -la /etc/update-motd.d total 64 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 19 19:45 ./ drwxr-xr-x 152 root root 12288 Sep 19 19:53 ../ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1220 Apr 9 2018 00-header* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1157 Apr 9 2018 10-help-text* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Sep 19 19:45 50-landscape-sysinfo -> /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4264 Aug 19 2018 50-motd-news* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 604 Mar 21 2018 80-esm* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3017 Mar 21 2018 80-livepatch* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97 Nov 12 2018 90-updates-available* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 299 Jun 3 12:51 91-release-upgrade* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 129 Nov 12 2018 95-hwe-eol* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 111 Sep 20 2018 97-overlayroot* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142 Nov 12 2018 98-fsck-at-reboot* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 144 Nov 12 2018 98-reboot-required* After running these commands sudo chmod -x /etc/update-motd.d/10-help-text && \ sudo chmod -x /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news && \ sudo chmod -x /etc/update-motd.d/80-livepatch New MOTD Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-64-generic x86_64) System information as of Mon Sep 23 17:20:09 UTC 2019 System load: 0.0 Processes: 120 Usage of /: 37.9% of 29.02GB Users logged in: 0 Memory usage: 18% IP address for enp0s3: 10.0.2.15 Swap usage: 0% 0 packages can be updated. 0 updates are security updates. Last login: Mon Sep 23 17:18:31 2019 from 10.0.2.2