FreeBSD showing version number upon login

Brian Candler B.Candler at pobox.com
Fri Feb 10 03:48:15 PST 2006


On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:53:10PM +0000, Brian Candler wrote:
> Do you mean the version number *within* /etc/motd? (i.e. you also see it if
> you type "cat /etc/motd"? )
> 
> Have a look in /etc/rc.d/motd
> 
> I don't see why setting update_motd="NO" in rc.conf didn't fix this for
> you.

I forgot to add: after setting update_motd="NO", you must actually edit
/etc/motd to remove the FreeBSD version number! Did you do that?

Regards,

Brian.


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