Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:49:46 +0100 From: Walter Hop <freebsd@spam.lifeforms.nl> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Small motd nit in 10.1 Message-ID: <8C81A636-D2B5-4EFB-9EA3-58E88E16CA94@spam.lifeforms.nl>
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I noticed that the motd has been updated, which is great. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.1/etc/motd?revision=272461&view=markup However, the following line could be improved: Show the version of FreeBSD installed: uname -a I would recommend changing the line to: Show the version of FreeBSD installed: freebsd-version Users often confuse the kernel version (uname -a) with the actual FreeBSD version from the freebsd-version(1) command. Because of this, people needlessly worry whether their system was updated correctly after freebsd-update has run, because they erroneously check this with ‘uname -a’. A small motd change will hopefully prevent that. Cheers, WH -- Walter Hop | PGP key: https://lifeforms.nl/pgp
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