FreeBSD showing version number upon login

[Kris Kennaway]

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
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