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From: Frank Altpeter <frank.altpeter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login
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On 2/9/06, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> >> 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...

That wasn't the question. The question was "how to suppress this line
on login", and for that, removing the /etc/motd is one of the many
ways to archive this result. Thanks for  doing the parrot on my
response.

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