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Re: Bug#988406: notifying users on EOL of a debian release



On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:08:09AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> I seem to remember that Ubuntu might have a solution for this and I
> found these resources:

Another possibility would be to use Ubuntu's dynamic motd support. This
may not be appropriate for Debian but could be used to share news
like new releases, ending support for old releases, etc. It might help
cover a segment of users that wouldn't necessarily notice gui update
notifications.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/tools-pam-motd/11905
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-motd
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/en/man8/update-motd.8.html

$ apt-file search /etc/update-motd.d
base-files: /etc/update-motd.d/00-header
base-files: /etc/update-motd.d/10-help-text
base-files: /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news
fortunes-ubuntu-server: /etc/update-motd.d/60-ubuntu-server-tip
freedombox: /etc/update-motd.d/50-freedombox
fwupd: /etc/update-motd.d/85-fwupd
mythtv-status: /etc/update-motd.d/50-mythtv-status
overlayroot: /etc/update-motd.d/97-overlayroot
ubuntu-advantage-tools: /etc/update-motd.d/88-esm-announce
ubuntu-advantage-tools: /etc/update-motd.d/91-contract-ua-esm-status
ubuntu-release-upgrader-core: /etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade
unattended-upgrades: /etc/update-motd.d/92-unattended-upgrades
update-notifier-common: /etc/update-motd.d/90-updates-available
update-notifier-common: /etc/update-motd.d/95-hwe-eol
update-notifier-common: /etc/update-motd.d/98-fsck-at-reboot
update-notifier-common: /etc/update-motd.d/98-reboot-required

Thanks

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