[SOLVED] Disable freebsd-version on login

Bendik · 01-01-2020, 10:33 AM

Hi,

Whenever I log into my FreeBSD box (console or ssh) I get the following messages:

Code:

Last login: Wed Jan  1 17:17:29 2020 from mungo.jungle.net
FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC

I would like to suppress the second line, since I have similar information in /etc/motd. I suspect it is the output of freebsd-version, but I cannot for the life of me figure out which file to modify. Anyone know?

fatmac · 01-02-2020, 06:26 AM

Maybe something in this post will do it.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/h...message.24156/

cynwulf · 01-02-2020, 08:25 AM

That is almost certainly the output of freebsd-version(1) or uname(1), which is perhaps being called by /etc/login.conf or perhaps /etc/profile or something else, I can't really say which.

Try running a grep for either of those on /etc to see which configuration files are calling it? But be wary of modifying those, if you can simply get away with a dot file instead (~/.profile or ~/.login_conf).

If you want to get rid off all the messages, just follow fatmac's link.

Bendik · 01-02-2020, 10:41 AM

Thank you both, it was uname -v called from /etc/profile