We must be hitting a race condition when update-motd is installed, since
we've only just written to /var/run/motd.new when we try and write to it.
From Launchpad:
Cron script spams due to not suppressing error when there is no /var/run/motd.new
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379044
cp /var/run/motd.orig /var/run/motd.new
if mythtv-status $ARGS -h $HOST >> /var/run/motd.new
then
- mv /var/run/motd.new /var/run/motd
+ [ -f /var/run/motd.new ] && mv /var/run/motd.new /var/run/motd
fi