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Date:      Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:20:01 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [WAY OFF TOPIC] Argh!  Did anybody tape survivor?
Message-ID:  <20010331072001.E97985@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0103310013320.6108-100000@aphex.newgold.net>
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Joseph Mallett wrote:

> that reminds me of something interesting earlier today. I forgot that like
> Netscape-Linux ran under emulation and identified itself as 'Linux 2.2.16'
> in like the USER_AGENT field. And like, I asked Kirk McKusick to visit
> something on my site, and I saw a hit from his computer but like the
> useragent line jumped out at me and I was like 'WTF!' then someone
> reminded me =) It was most amusing at the time.

That's why I put

sysctl -w compat.linux.osname=$(uname -s) >/dev/null
sysctl -w compat.linux.osrelease=$(uname -r) >/dev/null

in /etc/rc.local.  There's no way my browser is going to identify itself
as Linux.

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D

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