motd not running. or is it? 17.10

[nmparmar]

New to this world, and trying to customise motd setup on ubuntu 17.10.

Mostly understand how it works, but all I see on logon is the 'Last login: <date> from <IP>'
I have checked the following as per https://askubuntu.com/questions/5387...n-ubuntu-14-04 and all appear ok:
- file /etc/pam.d/login contains the following:
session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic
session optional pam_motd.so noupdate
- file /etc/ssh/sshd_config contains the following:
UsePAM yes
PrintMotd no

however running sudo run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/ doesn't display the expected message.

I have followed this article: https://ownyourbits.com/2017/04/05/c...an-and-ubuntu/ still no message.
I then backed out those changes and removed and reinstalled update-motd which stopped me getting the last logon details. Reinstalling them I can see the timestamp again.
I then followed this article: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpdateMotd and noticed the following:
- /etc/update-motd.d directory existed but no scripts / files therein. I created a sample script as per that article and added it to the directory as '10-stats'. Contents below:

 #!/bin/sh
  echo
  date
  echo
  who
  echo
  uptime

- /etc/cron.d/update-motd doesn't exist at all.
- Still trying to run

sudo run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/

returns nothing and login only displays the last login date/source. I can execute 10-stats fine and get the expected output.

I've now confused myself silly and need some help. Any pointers anybody?

Thanks

[nmparmar]

Minor update:
Not sure what has changed, but now upon running 'sudo run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/ I am getting the below error messages:

run-parts: failed to exec /etc/update-motd.d//10-stats: Exec format error
run-parts: /etc/update-motd.d//10-stats exited with return code 1

I can still run the 10-stats file directly without issue.

I am running Ubuntu in a virtual machine under vmware esx 6.5.

[nmparmar]

*tumbleweed*

Oh well, ended up resolving with a fresh install. Consider this closed.