Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:07:05 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting the running patch level Message-ID: <867gt27dzq.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <50295C95.7020301@gmail.com> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:59:17 %2B0300") References: <0B65D7562F9DA04FAC3F15C508BF67136B90E09E1F@ESESSCMS0355.eemea.ericsson.se> <001701cd7648$c2520350$46f609f0$@com> <5024f984.45ca320a.1838.4155SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <CAC8HS2FU1hrbh_m4P6h%2BSpUAJREfCeynHPD3QnNx6XuzSb3T-g@mail.gmail.com> <86pq6xs0zb.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120812163448.GA88577@DataIX.net> <86vcgm7fsw.fsf@ds4.des.no> <50295C95.7020301@gmail.com>
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Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> writes: > One could also set the environment variable UNAME_r to the correct > value (either in system wide e.g. /etc/profile or to a specific user > dot files). If your goal is to have uname(1) return the correct value, yes, except it won't always work. For instance, sudo(1) (and probably also su(1), but I never use it) will strip it from the environment and will *not* run /etc/profile before the requested command. > Or, since the correct value is always in newvers.sh, if src is present > in the system a periodic script could update it automatically. We can't assume that src is present. > The manual updating will cause more confusion in the long run - > people tend to forget these things... Nobody suggested manually updating anything. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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