From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 16 11:22:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7B237B872 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:22:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu ([24.12.197.197]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000716182234.BMLQ11071.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@math.missouri.edu>; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 11:22:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3971FD1E.21330210@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:21:18 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What makes the first line in /etc/motd References: <3971F9AA.CB581E24@math.missouri.edu> <3971FBB7.D3BB1C82@cup.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, my question was not clear. I did not wish to know what version of FreeBSD binaries I was using. I wanted to know what version of FreeBSD I have in my /usr/src directory, given that /usr/src is more recent than my binaries. Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > > It I look at the first line in /etc/motd, I see > > > > FreeBSD 4.1-RC (MONT) #0: Sat Jul 15 22:45:48 CDT 2000 > > > > I am curious is to what program does this. > > uname(1) > > > Really, what I am asking is: how do I find out what version > > of FreeBSD I am using, just by looking at the sources, without > > building them? When FreeBSD becomes 4.1-STABLE, in which file > > should I look to see this? > > man 1 uname > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org > tel: (408) 447-4222 -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message