diff --git a/components/motd.php b/components/motd.php
index 5b811cb00c47a02768928070c57f13c028d209b8..60a48604f672ede7eecee7a9f54032cfc1559887 100644
--- a/components/motd.php
+++ b/components/motd.php
@@ -74,9 +74,9 @@ $motd .= "\n";
 }
 $motd .= "---------------------------- [ http://sucs.org/ ] -----------------------------\n";
 
-if (date("z",time()-filemtime($motd_file)) < 1 && $poemmode == 1) {
+//if (time()-filemtime($motd_file) < 86000  && $poemmode == 1) { //86000 to allow a little slack depending on when cron runs
     // print "MOTD too recent to replace with a poem!\n";
-} else {
+//} else {
     file_put_contents($motd_file, $motd);
-}
+//}
 ?>
diff --git a/components/motd_wrapper.php b/components/motd_wrapper.php
index 765e8242a19bcb34e7c487bbee1dbe7a4d4e6a98..dfd94228b1ae7492c25fd739b74821813cb40838 100644
--- a/components/motd_wrapper.php
+++ b/components/motd_wrapper.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ $dbname = 'sucssite';
 $dbuser = 'apache';
 
 $DB = NewADOConnection('postgres8');
-$DB->Connect('dbname='.$dbname.',dbuser='$dbuser);
+$DB->Connect('dbname='.$dbname.' user='.$dbuser);
 $DB->SetFetchMode(ADODB_FETCH_ASSOC);
 
-include("./motd.php");
+include($base."components/motd.php");