I am trying to change the motd "message of the day" on my Ubuntu server 10.10,
But when i do sudo vi /etc/motd...
i can change the text here, but as soon as I save and exit this file. It changes itself straight back.
When i tried to log in, i get blank screen on the login page, even the src/configtest.php This can be solved by reverting whatever was edited for the motd option to its original paramater. anyone experienced this before and found a solution? The only reason for me to use php 5.2 is to install roundcube alongside squirrelmail. Using: centos 5.5 32-bit, squirrelmail 1.4.8, php 5.2
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I have been trying to get rid of the boring motd when ssh-ing into the machine. I have sudo vim-ed the /etc/motd file to no avail.
Even if I add a motd.tail tail file with my content. I still get the boring and verbose:
Quote:
Linux barney 2.6.35-28-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 14:39:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10
Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: [URL]
How do I get rid of this?
I am setting a customized MOTD, however after 24 hrs, it reverts back to the default MOTD.
I noticed that it is a softlink
Code:
cmmiller@ladytron:/etc$ ls -al | grep motd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2009-07-05 10:47 motd -> /var/run/motd
cmmiller@ladytron:/etc$
And I'm making the change to /var/run/motd, however it keeps changing.
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What did I do, how can I manually update/create the /var/run/motd file?
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Code:
Linux zeus 2.6.35-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 22:14:14 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10
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I know this is somewhat lame, but I remember back in college the MOTD on some of the systems was a random quote. I always wanted to do that. It seemed really trivial, but still neat and clever.
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Script
Code:
#!/bin/bash
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I've a popular vbulletin forum (10k max in vbulletin stats 'whos online') runnin in two servers like this:
1) Web server running vBulletin.
Dual Intel E5620 @ 2.40GHz (shows 16 cpus)
12 GB RAM
2 x 500 GB SATA (one for system/web and other for backups)
CentOS 5.6 64 bit
Apache/2.2.17
PHP 5.2.16
2) MySQL 5.server
Dual Intel E5620 @ 2.40GHz (shows 16 cpus)
16 GB RAM
2 x 500 GB SATA (one for system/web and other for backups)
CentOS 5.6 64 bit
MySQL 5.0.77
Web server connects to MySQL using private LAN.
Web-php server works with xcache as recommended by vBulletin.
Image/avatars and other static files (css, js, etc) are on a CDN
MySQL server uses Memcached for caching common queries.
The problem I'm facing, is from time to time (let's say one or two times a week) the Web server goes into read only mode... then the server has to be rebooted in order to get online normally and be able to work. From the logs I've seen this:
Code:
This is a new server, and in the old server the 'read only mode' issue happened very often too... so I guess it's not a HD issue.. it's just the HD have a heavy I/O usage. What do you think?
I am thinking about this solutions to improve the webserver performance:
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