Small motd nit in 10.1
Walter Hop
freebsd at spam.lifeforms.nl
Wed Oct 29 22:49:56 UTC 2014
I noticed that the motd has been updated, which is great.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/10.1/etc/motd?revision=272461&view=markup
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 ‘uname -a’. A small motd change will hopefully prevent that.
Cheers,
WH
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