fixes for bug #276539

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d522a67c691b876ef078d5226c38329f1633154c..95a6b9c219f234012b1d5d6d9a37b72ceb89a70b 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 update-motd (1.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
-  * update-motd: On disable, regenerate a motd that does not have the possibly
-    stale update-motd data in it.
+  * update-motd: on disable, regenerate a motd that does not have the possibly
+    stale update-motd data in it; on enable, run update-motd immediately
+    (LP: #276539)
+  * update-motd.1: update the manpage accordingly
 
- -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:34:55 -0500
+ -- Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>  Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:30:34 -0500
 
 update-motd (1.7) intrepid; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/update-motd b/update-motd
index 58df5a45a61edf196871cce0ae68ec2f42d659f0..044802c92c3e87b2cdcf7011c690ce4dc58160b5 100755 (executable)
--- a/update-motd
+++ b/update-motd
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ for arg in $@; do
                "--enable"|"-e")
                        rm -f "$DISABLED"
                        echo "$NAME is now enabled." 1>&2
-                       exit 0
+                       # Do not exit here, as we want to update the MOTD
+                       # immediately upon enabling
                ;;
                "--force"|"-f")
                        FORCE=1

diff --git a/update-motd.1 b/update-motd.1
index f7ef35d0c253ef70fa3bf6112e118ba7bb6bf9c6..729295b8cf8ae825d58032d9ceaa387c3b73033e 100644 (file)
--- a/update-motd.1
+++ b/update-motd.1
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ update\-motd [\-\-disable|\-\-enable|\-\-force]
 .IX Header "OPTIONS"
 .TP
 \fB\-\-disable\fP
-Prevent update-motd from running. This is useful for temporarily disabling automatic updates of \fI/etc/motd\fP by the \fI/etc/cron.d/update-motd\fP cronjob.  Note that this exits immediately after disabling, and does update the MOTD.
+Prevent update-motd from running. This is useful for temporarily disabling automatic updates of \fI/etc/motd\fP by the \fI/etc/cron.d/update-motd\fP cronjob.  Note that this regenerates a base MOTD without the update-motd additions, and then exits.
 .TP
 \fB\-\-enable\fP
-Allow update-motd to run.  This is useful for enabling automatic updates of \fI/etc/motd\fP through the \fI/etc/cron.d/update-motd\fP cronjob.  Note that this exits immediately after enabling, and does update the MOTD.
+Allow update-motd to run.  This is useful for enabling automatic updates of \fI/etc/motd\fP through the \fI/etc/cron.d/update-motd\fP cronjob.  Note that this updates the MOTD immediately.
 .TP
 \fB\-\-force\fP
 Override a disabled update-motd for a single, immediate update of \fI/etc/motd\fP.