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From: ji@walkuere.altair.fr (John Ioannidis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: sunos 4.0.1 and motd
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 24 May 89 10:17:19 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 11, message 5 of 15

In article <8905182140.AA16683@atlantic.nprdc.navy.mil>
	stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 299, message 12 of 13
>
>Someone just pointed out that the motd on our sun4's and sun3's all say
>"SunOS Release 4.0" rather than 4.0.1.  Odd, installing the 4.0.1 upgrade
>(from 4.0) didn't upgrade the string in the kernel from which the motd is
>constructed?  Or have we done something wrong?

Well, you can't expect Sun's upgrade scripts to work perfectly! :-) The
script should have changed the contents of ${SYS}/conf.common/RELEASE to
4.0.1 (in my case, 4.0.1_Export). (where SYS=/usr/share/sys, obviously).
I did that by hand and it works fine. Here's my /etc/motd:

SunOS Release 4.0.1_Export (WALKUERE) #16: Wed Apr 19 17:10:22 MET DST 1989

/ji


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