Uname borked on ??-Release...
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 4 21:05:51 UTC 2008
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>>
>> Your problem makes no sense then :)
>
> Up until now, you've told me a couple things
> I might not have already known :-D
>
>> The kern.osrelease returns a string compiled into the kernel (see
>> conf/newvers.sh), so if it returns 6.2-RELEASE then that string must
>> be present.
>>
>
> I'd like to think so, but, I don't. If you've feeling masochistic,
> you can see that evidence below. When does the sysctl get set?
The string is set at kernel compile time and the sysctl that points to
it is read-only.
> During boot, I assume? Is there any "caching" of sysctl data
> that might persist over a reboot?
>
> Even better, have I been h at X0red? lol. Be the first time in
> forever, but I've griped and griped to my ISP about the security
> of their CPE, to no avail.
It is possible, I guess it makes more sense than anything else.
Kris
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