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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <d...@des.no>
Newsgroups: mpc.lists.freebsd.security,muc.lists.freebsd.security
Subject: Re: getting the running patch level
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:07:05 +0200
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Manolis Kiagias <sonic200...@gmail.com> writes:
> One could also set the environment variable UNAME_r to the correct
> value (either in system wide e.g. /etc/profile or to a specific user
> dot files).

If your goal is to have uname(1) return the correct value, yes, except
it won't always work.  For instance, sudo(1) (and probably also su(1),
but I never use it) will strip it from the environment and will *not*
run /etc/profile before the requested command.

> Or, since the correct value is always in newvers.sh, if src is present
> in the system a periodic script could update it automatically.

We can't assume that src is present.

> The manual updating  will cause more confusion in the long run -
> people tend to forget these things...

Nobody suggested manually updating anything.

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