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Re: [PATCH] Prevent redundancy in 'uname -a' (w/ChangeLog)


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent redundancy in 'uname -a' (w/ChangeLog)
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:04:07 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > 
> > In Debian, "uname -a" is executed by login right after authenticating.
> 
> Huh?  Where is this printed?  Not in the standard system login
> scripts.  But perhaps in a user's personal environment scripts.  I
> tend to do that myself.  But it is a personal choice, not a system
> choice.  I am running both Debian woody and sid on various machines.

All my Debian systems are sid and this behaviour can be reproduced as
a new user with default configuration.

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T., Ainulindale (Silmarillion)




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