From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 19 16:06:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA03346 for current-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 16:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from Pkrw.tcn.net (Pkrw.tcn.net [199.166.4.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03341 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 16:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (krw@localhost) by Pkrw.tcn.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00504 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:08:48 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 19:08:24 -0500 (EST) From: "Kenneth R. Westerback" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2R suggestion - replace banner's #0 with CTM level id Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Whenever FreeBSD boots and at each logon it displays its banner: FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE (KERNELNAME) #0: ...timestamp... Now in my (admittedly limited) experience the #0 seems to always stay the same. Why not use that slot to display the source/CTM level in place when the kernel is compiled? Would this not provide some potentially useful information when people are asking questions? Admittedly not fool proof since they could manually change source files and not change the info in /usr/src/.ctm_status, but something. ---- Ken