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Erik — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:23:57 GMT

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Since this is most useful on Login, make sure to comment out /etc/rc.d/rc.S, line 385 (or 334 in Slack 12) so it reads

# echo "$(/bin/uname -sr)." > /etc/motd

Otherwise, Slackware will keep printing the kernel version you're using.

root@tachikoma:/tmp# cat /etc/cron.daily/slacklog
#!/bin/sh
wget -q ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-10.2/ChangeLog.txt -O /tmp/slacklog.$$
diff /tmp/.slack-changelog /tmp/slacklog.$$ > /etc/motd
mv /tmp/slacklog.$$ /tmp/.slack-changelog

root@tachikoma:/tmp# cat /etc/motd
0a1,17
> Tue Sep 19 14:07:49 CDT 2006
> patches/packages/gzip-1.3.5-i486-1_slack10.2.tgz:
> Upgraded to gzip-1.3.5, and fixed a variety of bugs.
> Some of the bugs have possible security implications if gzip or its tools are
> fed a carefully constructed malicious archive. Most of these issues were
> recently discovered by Tavis Ormandy and the Google Security Team. Thanks
> to them, and also to the ALT and Owl developers for cleaning up the patch.
> For further details about the issues fixed, please see:
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0758
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0988
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1228
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4334
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4335
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4336
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4337
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4338
> (* Security fix *)

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