Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 11:48:44 -0400 From: Christopher Lane <colane@inteliport.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: World version Message-ID: <427B91DC.6060801@inteliport.com>
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Hi, Simple question: how can I tell what version of the system binaries I'm running? Flame-proofing follows. Searches on this mailing list and google tell me 'uname -a' is the ticket, but that doesn't seem to get what I want. Here's the testing I've done. * Install 5.3 from cd on two machines * CVSup /usr/src on both to 5.4-STABLE * On box #1, I configure/upgrade just the kernel (using the "old way") * On box #2, I do the entire 'make buildworld' through 'mergemaster' as per handbook section 19.4 My understanding is that on box #1 I'm running a 5.4 kernel with 5.3 system binaries (which is a bad thing to do). Box #2 is 5.4 for both. Here's the uname output for both boxes: box #1: FreeBSD name.domain 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #2: Thu Apr 21 12:02:07 EDT 2005 user@name.domain:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/FIREWALL i386 box #2: FreeBSD name.domain 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Fri May 6 09:46:40 EDT 2005 user@name.domain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDBOX i386 I know the first box has 5.3 binaries, but uname -a doesn't indicate that. So how can I tell the first box has mismatched kernel/userspace? Chris
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