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Bug 2008410

Summary: plugin:insights changes link files in /etc/motd.d
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Jing Huo <jhuo>
Component: insights-clientAssignee: Gaël Chamoulaud <gchamoul>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Priscila Gutierres <prgutier>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 8.4CC: agk, bmr, cmarinea, fjansen, jhunsaker, link, mabezerr, pakotvan, plambri, sbradley, theute, toneata
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
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Fixed In Version: insights-client-3.1.7-2.el8_4 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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: 2081060 2081061 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-05-02 16:15:29 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jing Huo 2021-09-28 07:47:21 UTC 
Description of problem:

User used the this command to disable "not registered to insights" message.
d
# ln -s /dev/null /etc/motd.d/insights-client

However, while collecting sosreport, plugin:insights makes /etc/motd.d/insights-client link to /etc/insights-client/insights-client.motd again.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

sos-4.0-12.el8_4

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.# ln -s /dev/null /etc/motd.d/insights-client
2.# sos report
3.# ls -l /etc/motd.d/insights-client

Actual results:

/etc/motd.d/insights-client links to /etc/insights-client/insights-client.motd after collecting sosreport.

Expected results:

No file is changed when collecting sosreport without --allow-system-change option.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jake Hunsaker 2021-09-28 13:20:46 UTC 
In sos-4.0, the insights plugin was still capturing an offline insights tarball. Does your user experience this issue if they directly run `insights-client --offline`?

The plugin was updated for sos-4.2 to no longer collect this and instead only collect insights logs, as the collections made by insights-client were/are redundant with existing sos collections.
Comment 2 Jing Huo 2021-09-29 01:06:28 UTC 
Yes, I can see the issue with running `insights-client --offline` command only. So the issue will fixed in sos-4.2, right?
Comment 4 Jake Hunsaker 2021-09-29 04:18:58 UTC 
sos-4.2 will no longer call that command, so you'll no longer see this when running that version of sos, correct. However, the actual fix for the issue would need to be addressed within insights-client.

As such, I'm updating the component for this bugzilla to insights-client to track a proper fix there.
Comment 9 Link Dupont 2022-03-15 19:51:03 UTC 
This is indeed reproducible on rhel-8.5 with insights-core 246:

[link@rhel-8 ~]$ sudo mkdir /etc/motd.d
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ sudo dnf install insights-client
...
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ ls -l /etc/motd.d
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 Mar 15 15:43 insights-client -> /etc/insights-client/insights-client.motd
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ sudo ln -sf /dev/null /etc/motd.d/insights-client
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ ls -l /etc/motd.d
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Mar 15 15:44 insights-client -> /dev/null
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ sudo insights-client --offline
Starting to collect Insights data for rhel-8.5
Archive saved at /var/tmp/dmfjth14/insights-rhel-8.5-20220315194510.tar.gz
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ ls -l /etc/motd.d
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 41 Mar 15 15:45 insights-client -> /etc/insights-client/insights-client.motd
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ rpm -q insights-client
insights-client-3.1.7-1.el8_5.noarch
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ sudo insights-client --version
Client: 3.1.7
Core: 3.0.246-1

However, with core 266, this issue is not present, and the motd file is correctly symlinked to /dev/null after an archive is successfully uploaded:

[link@rhel-8 ~]$ sudo insights-client
Starting to collect Insights data for rhel-8.5
Uploading Insights data.
Successfully uploaded report from rhel-8.5 to account 6677212.
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ sudo insights-client --version
Client: 3.1.7
Core: 3.0.266-1
[link@rhel-8 ~]$ ls -l /etc/motd.d
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 9 Mar 15 15:47 insights-client -> /dev/null