thanx Andrew,
It seems to work. But I have another problem right now.
The changed copyrighttext is now displayed, when I reboot the
maschine, but only at the top of the boot messages. When I login to
the maschine, it=B4s still the old text:

SauPN-GATE/i386 (SauPN-Gate) (tty00)

login: root
Password:
Last login: Tue Aug  6 16:36:52 2002 on tty00
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
        The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights =
reserved.

SauPN-GATE 2.0.0
SauPN-GATE 2.0.0
SauPN-GATE 2.0.0
SauPN-GATE 2.0.0 (SauPN-KERNEL) #0: Tue Aug  6 13:57:39 CEST 2002
SauPN-GATE 1.5.2 (SauPN-KERNEL) #9: Tue Aug  6 11:25:11 CEST 2002
SauPN-GATE 1.5.2 (SauPN-KERNEL) #8: Tue Aug  6 10:48:39 CEST 2002

Welcome to NetBSD!

SauPN-Gate>

Do I need to recompile the bootloader???

btw, do you know what happend here:

SauPN-GATE 2.0.0
SauPN-GATE 2.0.0
SauPN-GATE 2.0.0
SauPN-GATE 2.0.0 (SauPN-KERNEL) #0: Tue Aug  6 13:57:39 CEST 2002
SauPN-GATE 1.5.2 (SauPN-KERNEL) #9: Tue Aug  6 11:25:11 CEST 2002
SauPN-GATE 1.5.2 (SauPN-KERNEL) #8: Tue Aug  6 10:48:39 CEST 2002

why is that info displayed six times???

P.S.: /kern/copyright is correct, it contains the new copyright text.

greetz Nic

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Brown [mailto:atatat@atatdot.net]
Sent: Dienstag, 6. August 2002 16:17
To: Nicolas Saurbier
Cc: xs@kittenz.org; bsd-help (E-mail) (E-mail)
Subject: Re: osrelease.sh / param.h


>ok, but it works now..
>I think the problem was the decreasing of the version.
>I changed it now to version 4.0.0 and it works.
>
>"sysctl -n kern.ostype" is now: "Gateway"
>"sysctl -n kern.osrelease" is now "4.0.0"
>
>I=B4m still working on the "sysctl -n kern.version" output...

you shouldn't change those numbers, or even need to.  add new ones if
you like, or make sysctl return the values of different variables so
that it appears to be something else, but remember that those values
are used by all sorts of things al over the place to determine the
capabilities of your code base.  if you change them to something that
no one knows about, no one's code will compile very easily

>btw, does any1 know, where the copyright output after login comes =
from????

the top of main() in /sys/kern/init_main.c.

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