sunos 4.0.1 and motd

Neil Ostroff wasatch!cs.utah.edu!cuatro.bellcore.com!nao at cs.utexas.edu
Thu May 25 01:59:32 AEST 1989


In X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 299, message 12 of 13,
stanonik at nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes:

>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?

The file /usr/share/sys/conf.common/RELEASE contains the release id.  The
4.0.1 upgrade did not change this file, but you can edit it yourself and
then rebuild the kernel.

Neil Ostroff
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