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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:34:48 -0400
From:      Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Roberto <robertot@redix.it>, "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: getting the running patch level
Message-ID:  <20120812163448.GA88577@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <86pq6xs0zb.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 09:05:44PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "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
> 

Could I suggest... the same way that /etc/motd is already updated ?

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 - (2^(N-1)) JJH48-ARIN




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