whoops. Bring on site configuration files :-/

components/motd.php

 <?php
-$motd_file = "/home/honorary/chckens/motd.txt";
+$motd_file = "/tmp/motd.txt";
 
 function decode_entities($text, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT) {
    if (function_exists('html_entity_decode')) {