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Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Roberto <robertot@redix.it>,
	"Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: getting the running patch level
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Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> writes:
> Could I suggest... the same way that /etc/motd is already updated ?

You could, but it wouldn't be very helpful, since /etc/rc.d/motd uses
uname(1), which returns the kernel version.  On the contrary, once
/etc/issue is in place, we should use that instead of uname(1) to update
/etc/motd.

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