From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 04:28:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2592E16A423 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:28:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9065343D48 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:28:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from tripel (tripel [192.168.1.11]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA44975; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:28:41 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:30:34 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill To: Duane Whitty In-Reply-To: <4424B944.9020909@greenmeadow.ca> Message-ID: <20060324232138.I62079@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <4424B944.9020909@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] What's in a name? FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:28:47 -0000 On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: > I recently built 6-STABLE and I was wondering what > the #0 and #1 refer to in the uname > > FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #1: Fri > Mar 24 19:34:58 AST 2006 > root@dwpc.dwlabs.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-200603230410 i386 I think that refers to the number of times you've (re)built the kernel. So a fresh install will be #0, but it looks like you've changed your configuration and rebuilt the kernel once since then. FreeBSD seems to need far less kernel config tinkering now than it used to. I recall doing a lot of kernel builds back in the 2.2.x days just to make my hardware useable (or maybe I was dinking with it "just because"). Anyway, the # number would increment with each kernel build/install. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]