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How can I stop the automatic creation of ~/.cache/motd.legal-displayed file?

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In every home-directory on my Ubuntu Server is a .cache folder containing an empty file motd.legal-displayed. Is there a way to stop creating these .cache folders?

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answered 1 Year ago huovie · Accepted Answer

See man update-motd and /etc/update-motd.d

Disable motd

See /etc/pam.d/login and comment out the line that has session optional pam_motd.so in it. You might also want to do this in /etc/pam.d/sshd if ssh is also a concern.

Completely remove motd

This will remove anything related to motd (so also motd.legal-displayed):

sudo apt-get remove --purge update-motd