From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 16:53:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337C516A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:53:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6750943D46 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k19Gtsh0074608; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:55:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) Received: from localhost (arr@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id k19Gtspd074605; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:55:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from arr@watson.org) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: arr owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:55:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Andrew R. Reiter" To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20060209081032.GA72288@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20060209115531.F74364@fledge.watson.org> References: <20060209081032.GA72288@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alex Subject: Re: FreeBSD showing version number upon login X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:53:20 -0000 I don't think that response helps anyone :-) On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: :On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:29:25AM -0500, Alex wrote: :> I just installed a fresh copy of freebsd 6.0. I went on to try to remove the :> version number that appears before your MOTD and I had no luck. I first :> tried making a COPYRIGHT file in /etc(with touch COPYRIGHT) and adding :> update_motd="NO" to rc.conf and rebooted and that did nothing, it still :> showed up. I even went so far as to comment out the copyright statement in :> login.conf and rebuilt the DB but it still showed up. I also went to :> /etc/default/rc.conf and changed the default update_motd="YES" to no and :> rebooted and still it kept showing up. I am at wits end here..... anyone :> have any ideas? Am I missing something here? : :IMO, the real question is "why are you trying to hide it"..that :information is available in lots of ways. : :Kris : -- arr@watson.org