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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:21:18 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What makes the first line in /etc/motd
Message-ID:  <3971FD1E.21330210@math.missouri.edu>
References:  <3971F9AA.CB581E24@math.missouri.edu> <3971FBB7.D3BB1C82@cup.hp.com>

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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


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