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Date:      Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:05:44 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Roberto <robertot@redix.it>
Subject:   Re: getting the running patch level
Message-ID:  <86pq6xs0zb.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <CAC8HS2FU1hrbh_m4P6h%2BSpUAJREfCeynHPD3QnNx6XuzSb3T-g@mail.gmail.com> (Simon L. B. Nielsen's message of "Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:40:10 %2B0100")
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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

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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