You are right, when I did sudo systemctl status motd it returned
● motd.service
Loaded: masked (/dev/null)
Active: inactive (dead)
Motd fails to start upon sudo systemctl enable motd, with the following message
Synchronizing state for motd.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d motd defaults
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d motd enable
update-rc.d: warning: enable action will have no effect on runlevel 1
Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory
Any Ideas why it would do so ? . Subsequent restarts have not fixed the problem