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Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Roberto <robertot@redix.it>
Subject: Re: getting the running patch level
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"Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> This has been discussed a number of time, but there are no nice and
> simple solution.

There is a simple solution that, while not bulletproof, would work well
enough in most cases: have 'make installworld' create /etc/issue, which
would look like this:

  FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64/amd64

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