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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2014 23:49:46 +0100
From:      Walter Hop <freebsd@spam.lifeforms.nl>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Small motd nit in 10.1
Message-ID:  <8C81A636-D2B5-4EFB-9EA3-58E88E16CA94@spam.lifeforms.nl>

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I noticed that the motd has been updated, which is great.
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https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.1/etc/motd?revision=3D272461&vie=
w=3Dmarkup

However, the following line could be improved:
  Show the version of FreeBSD installed:  uname -a

I would recommend changing the line to:
  Show the version of FreeBSD installed:  freebsd-version

Users often confuse the kernel version (uname -a) with the actual =
FreeBSD version from the freebsd-version(1) command. Because of this, =
people needlessly worry whether their system was updated correctly after =
freebsd-update has run, because they erroneously check this with =
=E2=80=98uname -a=E2=80=99. A small motd change will hopefully prevent =
that.

Cheers,
WH

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Walter Hop | PGP key: https://lifeforms.nl/pgp




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