diff --git a/install b/install
index f1a55f1..48db4cb 100755
--- a/install
+++ b/install
@@ -126,31 +126,30 @@ _curl() {
     curl -m 10 --retry 3 -sL "$@"
 }
 
-###
-# 1 - Define variables for later use
-###
-if [ -z "$wo_branch" ]; then
-    if [ "$wo_travis" = "y" ]; then
-        wo_branch=updating-configuration
-    else
-        wo_branch=master
+wo_init_variables() {
+    if [ -z "$wo_branch" ]; then
+        if [ "$wo_travis" = "y" ]; then
+            wo_branch=updating-configuration
+        else
+            wo_branch=master
+        fi
     fi
-fi
-readonly wo_log_dir=/var/log/wo
-readonly wo_backup_dir=/var/lib/wo-backup
-readonly wo_tmp_dir=/var/lib/wo/tmp
-readonly wo_install_log=/var/log/wo/install.log
-readonly TIME_FORMAT='%d-%b-%Y-%H%M%S'
-readonly TIME=$(date +"$TIME_FORMAT")
-readonly NGINX_BACKUP_FILE="/var/lib/wo-backup/nginx-backup.$TIME.tar.gz"
-readonly EE_BACKUP_FILE="/var/lib/wo-backup/ee-backup.$TIME.tar.gz"
-readonly WO_BACKUP_FILE="/var/lib/wo-backup/wo-backup.$TIME.tar.gz"
+    readonly wo_log_dir=/var/log/wo
+    readonly wo_backup_dir=/var/lib/wo-backup
+    readonly wo_tmp_dir=/var/lib/wo/tmp
+    readonly wo_install_log=/var/log/wo/install.log
+    readonly TIME_FORMAT='%d-%b-%Y-%H%M%S'
+    readonly TIME=$(date +"$TIME_FORMAT")
+    readonly NGINX_BACKUP_FILE="/var/lib/wo-backup/nginx-backup.$TIME.tar.gz"
+    readonly EE_BACKUP_FILE="/var/lib/wo-backup/ee-backup.$TIME.tar.gz"
+    readonly WO_BACKUP_FILE="/var/lib/wo-backup/wo-backup.$TIME.tar.gz"
 
-if [ -x /usr/local/bin/ee ]; then
-    ee_migration=1
-elif [ -x /usr/local/bin/wo ]; then
-    wo_upgrade=1
-fi
+    if [ -x /usr/local/bin/ee ]; then
+        ee_migration=1
+    elif [ -x /usr/local/bin/wo ]; then
+        wo_upgrade=1
+    fi
+}
 
 ###
 # 1 - Checking linux distro
@@ -670,6 +669,10 @@ wo_init() {
 # 4 - WO MAIN SETUP
 ###
 
+###
+# 1 - Define variables for later use
+###
+
 # wo uninstall script
 if [ "$wo_purge" = "y" ]; then
     _run wo_backup_wo "Backing-up WO install"
@@ -677,9 +680,11 @@ if [ "$wo_purge" = "y" ]; then
     wo_lib_echo "The WordOps backup files can be found in $WO_BACKUP_FILE"
     exit 0
 else
+    # inital checkup
     wo_dir_init
-    _run wo_clean_repo
     wo_init
+    wo_init_variables
+    _run wo_clean_repo
     wo_check_distro
     # 1 - WO already installed
     if [ -x /usr/local/bin/wo ]; then
diff --git a/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py b/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py
index e0de983..d5f9c31 100644
--- a/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py
+++ b/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py
@@ -1470,10 +1470,15 @@ def pre_stack(self):
                 'root      soft    nofile      500000\n')
     # custom motd-news
     data = dict()
+    # check if update-motd.d directory exist
     if os.path.isdir('/etc/update-motd.d/'):
         if not os.path.isfile('/etc/update-motd.d/98-wo-update'):
+            # render custom motd template
             WOTemplate.deploy(
                 self, '/etc/update-motd.d/98-wo-update',
                 'wo-update.mustache', data)
         WOFileUtils.chmod(
             self, "/etc/update-motd.d/98-wo-update", 0o755)
+        # restart motd-news service if available
+        if os.path.isfile('/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.service'):
+            WOService.restart_service(self, 'motd-news')
diff --git a/wo/cli/templates/wo-update.mustache b/wo/cli/templates/wo-update.mustache
index be5091b..9ba2e02 100644
--- a/wo/cli/templates/wo-update.mustache
+++ b/wo/cli/templates/wo-update.mustache
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ ERR=$(mktemp) || exit 1
 CLOUD=$(mktemp) || exit 1
 trap "rm -f $NEWS $ERR $CLOUD" HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP BUS TERM
 
-if [ -n "$(command -v curl > /dev/null 2>&1)" ]; then
+if [ -n "$(command -v curl)" ]; then
     LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -m 5 --retry 3 -sI "$URL" | grep tag | awk -F "/" '{print $8}' 2>&1)
 fi
-if [ -n "$(command -v wo > /dev/null 2>&1)" ]; then
+if [ -n "$(command -v wo)" ]; then
     CURRENT_RELEASE=$(wo -v 2>&1 | grep v | awk -F " " '{print $2}')
 fi
 if [ -n "$CURRENT_RELEASE" ] && [ -n "$LATEST_RELEASE" ]; then