Re: Issue in man page motd.5

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Hi Helge,

On Sun, Nov 17, 2024 at 10:46:21AM GMT, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Without further ado, the following was found:
> 
> Issue:    Missing full stop
> 
> "On Debian GNU/Linux, dynamic content configured at I</etc/pam.d/login> is "
> "also displayed by I<pam_exec>"

That's a bug in a downstream patch from Debian.  See the patch below.
In that patch,

	+.I pam_exec

should become

	+.IP pam_exec .

Woever does that change, please add:

	Reported-by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
	Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
	Suggested-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>

Have a lovely day!
Alex


alx@debian:~/src/debian/doc/manpages/debian/latest/debian/patches$ cat 0007-motd.5.patch 
From: "Dr. Tobias Quathamer" <toddy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:22:57 +0100
Subject: motd.5

---
 man/man5/motd.5 | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man5/motd.5 b/man/man5/motd.5
index 9de8eea..2ddfae3 100644
--- a/man/man5/motd.5
+++ b/man/man5/motd.5
@@ -12,12 +12,20 @@ motd \- message of the day
 The contents of
 .I /etc/motd
 are displayed by
-.BR login (1)
+.\" Patched in Debian, maybe other distribs
+.BR pam_motd (8)
+.\" End of patch
+.\" .BR login (1)
 after a successful login but just before it executes the login shell.
 .P
 The abbreviation "motd" stands for "message of the day", and this file
 has been traditionally used for exactly that (it requires much less disk
 space than mail to all users).
+.P
+On Debian GNU/Linux, dynamic content configured at
+.I /etc/pam.d/login
+is also displayed by
+.I pam_exec
 .SH FILES
 .I /etc/motd
 .SH SEE ALSO


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