Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-5
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Because of the continous additions to "uname -a" output, the default /etc/motd
header that is generated on every boot starts looking very bloated to me.
This is specialy true on GNU/kFreeBSD where options like -p and -i are also
detected by the kernel (instead of returning "unknown" which would be
discarded). For example, in a qemu guest system:
$ uname -a
GNU/kFreeBSD orthanc 5.4-1-486 #0 Sun Nov 13 18:46:42 CET 2005 i686 i386 Pentium
II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron GNU/kFreeBSD
I'd recommend using uname -snrvm instead:
$ uname -snrvm
GNU/kFreeBSD orthanc 5.4-1-486 #0 Sun Nov 13 18:46:42 CET 2005 i686
Patch attached.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: GNU/kFreeBSD 5.4-1-486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii coreutils 5.93-5 The GNU core utilities
ii dpkg 1.13.11+kfreebsd package maintenance system for Deb
ii e2fsprogs 1.38-2 ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii libc0.1 2.3-1+kbsd.13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii lsb-base 3.0-11 Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii util-linux 2.12p-8+kbsd.1 Miscellaneous system utilities
initscripts recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- sysvinit-2.86.ds1/debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh~
2005-11-20 13:05:47.000000000 +0100
+++ sysvinit-2.86.ds1/debian/initscripts/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh 2005-11-20
13:09:40.000000000 +0100
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
MOTD="`readlink -f /etc/motd || :`"
if [ "$MOTD" != "" ]
then
- uname -a > $MOTD.tmp
+ uname -snrvm > $MOTD.tmp
sed 1d $MOTD >> $MOTD.tmp
mv $MOTD.tmp $MOTD
fi
