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To: Frank Altpeter <frank.altpeter@gmail.com>
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Cc: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org>, alex <theawel@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login 
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In message <e367ea100602090316s3352395ibc8801604b06ddda@mail.gmail.com>, Frank 
Altpeter writes:
>On 2/9/06, alex <theawel@gmail.com> wrote:
>> this had absolutely no effect, what i am trying to remove is the line
>> that has the FreeBSD info:
>>
>> [canceroftheweb:~] alex% ssh -l alex shake
>> Last login: Thu Feb  9 04:09:18 2006 from 192.168.0.100
>>
>> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
>>
>> Welcome to Master Shake!
>>
>> 4:14AM  up  3:06, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>> [shake:~] alex%
>>
>>
>> There has got to be an easy way to delete that line!
>
>Uhm... "rm /etc/motd" ?

Uhm, "uname -a"  ?

Uhm "echo __FreeBSD_cc_version | cpp -E" ?

Uhm "strings /bin/cat | grep -i freebsd" ?

Thinking that you can hide from a user what operating system he
is running on, you are seriously deluded...

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